Word: blots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revenge will motivate the cross country team in the Heptagonals this afternoon as it tries to erase the lone blot on its four-year 28-meet record--last week's 29 to 26 loss to Yale...
Speaking of resistance to psychotherapy, Coon said several years ago, "When it occurs most commonly, the student is suspicious of authority of all kinds, and thinks of a possible blot on his record. He does not know that whether internists or psychiatrists we regard most of the problems brought up as part of the process of maturation...
...acting of these and the other members of the large cast is their sloppyness in meeting cues. If Smithies subjects them to a little more discipline, they should be much more polished in subsequent performances. Yet all the rough spots of the opening night can still not blot out a thoroughly likeable...
...Department of Defense a grave decision: to concentrate intensively on the ICBM. No longer did the intercontinental ballistic missile need to hit a one-mile "pickle barrel" to be effective. A T-N (thermonuclear) warhead in the megaton range (equivalent to millions of tons of TNT) would blot out a large city even if it exploded well outside the city's limits, and its radioactive fallout would have a killing effect a long way downwind. So the ICBM, besides being fairly small, might be fairly inaccurate and still do its job. For it, a C.E.P. (circular error of probability...
...missilemen are not happy, however. Both civilian and military, they know too well the potential effect on the earth of thermonuclear warfare. They fear that some small, irresponsible nation may get hold of a missile or two and blot out the capital city of a nation that it hates. Or perhaps when the great nations are armed to the teeth with long-range missiles and nervously watching each other, some quick mistake will be made. An innocent meteor may be mistaken for an invading missile. There will be no time to check or debate, and the decision to fire...