Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word coming more and more into Pentagon usage is "overkill"-a blunt but descriptive term implying a power to destroy a military target not once but many times more than necessary. On Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's desk last week lay the paper plans that will soon add up to a problem of overkill: each of the services is ready to offer one or more complete weapons systems, each one promising to achieve nuclear annihilation of Russian targets. McElroy's problem: How much is enough-or to put it another way, how many times...
Planted in front of Chicago's television cameras, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, 37, took some blunt battering from usually kid-gloved Interviewer Norman Ross. Asked if he enlisted in the Army in World War II to help his political career, the corn-shucking 1956 Democratic keynoter shucked no corn. "Yes. sir," he said, "I thought it would help...
More practical than Douglas' speech was a piece of blunt advice relayed to Ike from Capitol Hill Democratic leaders: the President ought to set aside two 15-minute periods a week for talking to individual Republicans, face to face or by telephone, to jack up congressional support in his own party for reciprocal trade...
...tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx. After eight minutes, he took the gadget out, put it in its case and sent Joke home...
...started to live up to its promise as a $1,000,000 series of ten science programs that will stretch into next season. After a talky start, the hour-long program settled down with Dr. Kuiper and Dr. H. Julian ("Harvey") Allen, a rumpled giant who devised the blunt-nose cone that can safely return a missile warhead through the atmosphere without burning up with friction. One startling sequence: a blunt-nose staying intact during lab tests while a white-hot, pointed-nose disintegrated. Conquest's point: science and scientists can make fascinating fare without the support of capering...