Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daily Princetonian, on the other hand, is a sort of comradely dictatorship. Consider, for example, the matter of editorial policy. At 14 Plympton St. a topic which seems likely to arouse controversy inside the paper, such as whether or not the University should accept NDEA loans, or build bomb shelters, is discussed in a board meeting, where heated argument lasting as long as an hour often precedes the selection of a policy, by majority vote...
...Laue is not the only glib man in the magazine. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 inconclusively uses the mass media as whipping boy for the bomb shelter fad. But he has a word of comfort: "an all-out attack, precipitated perhaps by the certitude of survival, will destroy many printing presses...
...Picasso's Picassos done in the '30s are mostly domestic. Only one before 1939-that ol a nun torn asunder by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War-echoes the horror of Guernica. Picasso painted still lifes, a bird or two, portraits of Dora and Picasso's daughter Maia. But one da>' he finished an anguished woman who looked as if she were racked by some grisly disease. As World War II descended on Europe. Picasso's women became savage, lunatic figures done in colors that scream with rage. The agony vanished as suddenly...
...lead time to three years. For slightly less speed and slightly less range, we could have cut it down to one year. And what would have been the result if we had pushed the state of the art less hard and had thereby tripled our Pacific Fleet bomb load about two years earlier? Somehow, there wasn't any equation between what was needed and the cost-not just in dollars but in time...
...conversation, he is a habitual shadowboxer, leg crosser and finger tapper-with a steady stream of generals, vice presidents, scientists and budgeteers. After hours, his social life is relaxed and seldom formal. Despite his appreciation of good food and wine, he eats and drinks sparingly. His house lacks a bomb shelter but boasts a wine vault...