Word: canale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a posh mansion in Brookline, the group condemned the use of nuclear bombs, even for peaceful purposes, including Project Plowshare, which plans to harness nuclear explosions for such projects as the digging of a new sea-level Panama Canal...
...Story of F this gaily flecked moth who enchants the night with her musk (and by this I refer to the curious Miss Trepan) has indeed spread a queer and elusive scent. I am reminded of the Dutchman who when asked why he ploughed his canal boat up and down the same straight canal all his life, replied, "Because it is there." The Story of F is also there and a such must be dealt with...
...manufacture of nuclear explosives by havenots, establishes a control system through the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency to make sure that no reactor fuel is diverted to weapon-making, guarantees to all signatories of the pact the cooperation of the nuclear powers in such peaceful activities as canal blasting or mountain removal, and extends security guarantees to the non-nuclear powers. It also argues that NATO does not violate the non-proliferation concept by allowing non-nuclear allies to help select targets and asserts that if Europe united politically it would be entitled to its own nuclear strike force...
...world where any human being can become a Jew at any moment." That seems to satisfy this pea-brained pollyanna, who is blissfully happy to be a slave and can't understand why his companions aren't. "Look," he implores them, "look what a nice canal we're building...
...subordinates: George F. Kennan, Charles Bohlen) to chargé d'affaires in Vienna, where he was one of the first to warn of Hitler's Anschluss, and on to ambassadorships in Colombia, Portugal, Iran and Panama, where in 1952 he negotiated a revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty to give Panama greater benefits from the waterway; of pneumonia; in Washington...