Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's much-heralded showpiece shot of a new-type "clean" bomb, designed to reduce fallout and for use against military targets in limited...
...lacrosse game intervened to save the tie for the Crimson in the tenth. Jumbo clean-up hitter Joe Crowley blasted a long drive far out into centerfield and into the midst of an adjacent lacrosse match. The hit, which ordinarily would have been as easy home run, was limited to a ground rule double, and Scheiner retired the side without any scoring...
...move, had consulted with senior officials (Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss) on whether "to try to steal a march on the Soviet" by announcing a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests. He had decided that this summer's tests of "clean." i.e., low-fallout, nuclear weapons at Eniwetok Atoll were essential to U.S. security. Said Dulles: "We decided that we could not, in fairness to our responsibilities and our duties to the American people, perhaps to humanity, desist in a program which we believe to be sound merely for propaganda purposes...
...will be set up in Egypt. Under hard-hitting questioning by CBS Cairo Correspondent Frank Kearns, Nasser composedly kept returning to a pat explanation for Egypt's antagonism toward the U.S. and its allies: "We are defending ourselves" against "hostile action." For CBS, the filmed interview was a clean beat, made sweeter by the fact that when the show went on the air, ABC Interviewer Mike Wallace had a crew still waiting to grill him in Cairo. Last spring, when Khrushchev faced the CBS cameras, the network drew criticism for letting his remarks go on the air without...
...York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, took their political lives in their hands in their heavily industrial states. The lone dissident was Michigan's Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, for 18 years an official of a pipe fitters' local, who argued that organized labor could clean its own house, heavy-handedly suggested that it was time for the McClellan committee to go out of business. He was promptly and loudly supported by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who called the report "a disgraceful example of the use of sensationalism in an attempt to smear the trade-union movement...