Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Very Hopeful. Though Truman staunchly backed him up in his battles with Congress, Lilienthal decided to resign in 1950. His last important act in office was to oppose the crash program to build the hydrogen bomb. Along with most of the members of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, including Robert Oppenheimer, James Conant, Lee DuBridge and Enrico Fermi, Lilienthal objected to the bomb because he felt that the U.S. was relying too heavily on nuclear weapons and massive retaliation. He was also hopeful (but not very) that some agreement could be made with Russia not to build...
...customs require new, uncustomary terms. Folk singers in Washington, D.C., strum the strings of an ax. At Chicago a strong drinker is a long hitter; at the University of Texas those who can't hold it crash and burn under the table. A bag is an object, group or mood. I am in a pizza bag means "I want pizza." Where is the beard bag? means "Where are the beatniks...
...been twice as great as expected, and consumption of imported meat has soared 58%. Prices have spiraled, the black market flourishes and queues for food are an everyday sight in Cairo. Last week, faced with the unpleasant fact that a measure of austerity is the inescapable price of a crash development scheme, the government took the drastic step of banning the slaughter and sale of meat three days out of each week. It's back to corn and beans for the Egyptians on Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, though tourist hotels will still be allowed to serve meat daily. Violators...
After making some $5,000,000 in 32 months in the cutthroat movie industry, Kennedy pulled out; he also bearishly pulled out of the stock market in time to save his fortune from the 1929 crash. Fearing revolution and contemptuous of his fellow capitalists for not foreseeing the crash, Kennedy became an early, enthusiastic supporter of his old antagonist Franklin D. Roosevelt. He worked hard on William Randolph Hearst, who controlled the California delegation. Hearst finally came around, and Kennedy liked to boast that he was responsible, "though you don't find any mention of it in history books...
...popular image of Dag Hammarskjold has-changed more in the three years since his fatal plane crash than that of most statesmen changes in generations; and the cause is a posthumously published "spiritual diary" that he kept for thirty-six years, from the age of twenty until a few weeks before his death. Although Hammarskjold never showed this record to anyone, he decided sometime in the 1950's to leave it behind as "the only true 'profile'" of his personality...