Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fallout from Peking's nuclear firecracker wafted toward the West, the political chain reaction had only begun. Taking full propaganda advantage of its feat, Red China unctuously dispatched messages to heads of state, among them President Johnson, urging a summit conference to discuss nuclear disarmament. U.N. Secretary-General U Thant took up the call, suggested a meeting perhaps next year. The U.S. State Department had already rejected Red China's ploy, calling it "a sucker proposal" since it made no mention of inspection. If the Chinese are really concerned about all this, said the U.S., they can always...
Switching his tactics, Master Bullitt drove his private elevator, located in the adjacent shaft, down to the basement. Then, by means of a human chain, the trapped students were lifted out of the escape hatch at the top of the "people's elevator" into the neigh boring one. Within fifteen minutes the crippled conveyance had been completely evacuated and Quincy House had returned to normalcy...
Walt will be out there today looking for his sixth straight victory, and nothing short of a ball and chain seems likely to stop him from getting...
...support the "rumors." Now the majority of people are lulled into believing that Kennedy was shot by one mentally disturbed person-and he in turn by another-under the watchful eye of the law. It's a good thing nobody shot Ruby. It could have set off a chain reaction of Americans killing each other...
However, the chain of causation goes back farther than this. As Riesman stresses, both the change in Harvard's admissions policy and the competition to be admitted to Harvard are reflection of major changes in American society. Especially since World War II, leadership in American society has been democratized; "class" institutions, such as the Ivy League colleges, have been opened to all who qualify by "meritocratic" standards...