Word: cept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if an atomic exchange could be cept limited, of course, it would be horrifyingly destructive. This is the conclusion of a study entitled The Effects of Nuclear War, released last month by the Office of Technology Assessment. An arm of Congress, the OTA analyzed several levels of nuclear exchange. Among them was a classic case of controlled nuclear war: an attack on U.S. oil refineries by ten Soviet SS-18 missiles, each carrying eight warheads of one megaton force. Such an attack would destroy an estimated 64% of U.S. petroleum-refining capacity, along with railways, petrochemical plants, and storage...
There is a hardhat (Clifton James) whose workaday life seems to have been as terminal as his present state. His distraught wife (Joyce Ebert) cannot ac cept her husband's imminent death...
...maximum of 110 delegates. Every time the committee attempted to invalidate addresses like "John Smith, Boone Country," the Kentucky state Y.D. chairman paced the room in his cowboy boots and hat and three piece white suit and protested that "Kentucky's got a lotta country folks got no address 'cept Boone County." The credentials committee finally gave in after the Kentuckians threatened to stall the entire convention by examining all the address sheets of other states for missing items like zip codes...
...their attack, I thought it was every man for himself. The Arabs had put dynamite next to the wall, and I knew they meant to explode it. So I ran into a bathroom and crouched between two walls. When the dynamite went off, plaster fell over me, but ex cept for a shrapnel wound in my shoulder, I was okay...
Upper-income home owners have not been severely affected by the col lapse of the mortgage market. The wealthy still trade $100,000 houses and co-op apartments among themselves - though sellers sometimes have to ac cept paper payment in the form of private mortgages from buyers who cannot get bank financing. Large corporations ease the financial pains of executives who are transferred from one part of the country to another. When Olin Corp. moved Sales Representative Geoffrey Belanger and his family from Old Bridge, N.J., to Boston recently, it gave him an interest-free loan of $13,000, representing...