Word: curling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even as the negotiators were talking, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was totting up results of the October series of underground blasts at Yucca Flat, Nev. The results were enough to curl the scientists' hair: instead of a five-kiloton threshold, the real minimum underground blast that could be fully detected was about 20 kilotons-about the size of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima bombs. Science Advisory Committee Chairman James Rhyne Killian Jr. broke the news to President Eisenhower before Christmas, and the U.S. expects to break it to the Russians at Geneva this week. Next soul-searching question: Should...
...plan to attack Rule 22, the South's license to stop all civil-rights legislation by filibuster. Douglas & Co. could count 41 votes for abolition of Rule 22 as the first order of Senate business, figured they were well within sight of a thunderous victory that would curl the hair of aging Dixiecrats...
...Thawed Curl. Despite Hoffa's studied forgetfulness and witnesses' fright, the committee added some gamy paragraphs to the malodorous Hoffa record.* According to committee documents and testimony...
...testimony piled up, the insolent curl that seemed frozen on Hoffa's lips early in the week thawed into a grim straight line. And there was plenty more piling-up to come: the committee put Hoffa on notice that he would have to remain available for "several weeks...
...have become the flunkies for an empire of matrons, dowagers, career women, Vogue magazine, and church socials. Before we curl our tresses and attach the bustle, maybe there's time for a counter-revolution...