Word: deadliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acmy wrapped details in secrecy, but estimates were that the newly designed T-43 tanks would weigh up to 60 tons, be able to withstand the deadliest known antitank weapons. The T-43's own guns are automatically directed and controlled. Said Brigadier General David J. Crawford, boss of the Army's tank program: "They should outslug any land fighting machine ever produced." Since Chrysler already had a contract for a new 45-ton medium tank (TIME, Jan. 15), the new contract brought the corporation's total tank orders to $259 million, and total arms orders...
...televiewer of Hingham, Mass., complained: "I like Bobby Benson of B-Bar-B Ranch better. He's more truer. Hopalong never gets wounded, but Bobby Benson does. There's a whole bunch in Bobby Benson, and they have good teamwork, not like Hopalong Cassidy." But the deadliest arrow was launched by little Jack Clough of Rye, N.Y. Jeered...
Creeping paralysis, one of the deadliest diseases of legislative inquiry, has felled many a Harvard committee. The committee on parietal rules that was born in the Student Council chamber Monday night must not be allowed to succumb. Just by staying alive, it can do a valuable service in pointing up the impracticality and inequity of the present entertainment setup...
This week the President made his decision. He ordered work on the H-bomb to go ahead. Harry Truman's announcement had in it no sabre-rattling swagger, only the reluctant awareness of a duty that had to be done. He knew that he was authorizing construction of the deadliest weapon ever known...
...engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that are noisy and elaborate. One or two songs are nice enough to listen to, but there are none worth talking about. The sketches, always the most important part of a revue, are by & large the deadliest part of this...