Word: depth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grind, it was neither classy fielding, nor reliable pitching, nor booming home runs that assured the Yanks the pennant. Their secret was depth. Manipulating his players with military precision, Rookie Manager Ralph ("The Major") Houk demonstrated an uncanny ability to find the right man for the job. And whatever the job, the right man usually was a catcher-one of a remarkable Yankee trio whose versatility, both at bat and in the field, is unmatched in baseball history. In a season when both major leagues can boast fewer than half a dozen topflight catchers, the three best belong...
...Depth of inhaling is tied to the death rate among smokers even more closely than the amount of tobacco smoked, says the statistician who most tirelessly pursues the correlation between smoking and disease...
...lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed by death, even in their woolliest, most kittenish moments...
...more powerful sod busters of the future will have to be tested in the open because the earth's crust cannot hold them. Former Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard F. Libby estimates that a ten-megaton test would need to be exploded 18 miles below the surface. At this depth the rock is probably so plastic that digging a test hole would be impossible. Another possibility is to fire tests above the earth's atmosphere, as the U.S. did on a small scale in Project Argus (August-September 1958). But a big, rocket-borne test involves intricate problems...
...Minuteman warhead explodes with 20 times the force of the primitive, 20-kiloton A-bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. killing 78,-ooo people. Ranging down in power, the U.S. has a large group of small tactical nuclear weapons for use in light rockets, artillery shells, torpedoes, antisubmarine depth charges, air-to-air missiles, etc. The warhead of the air-to-air Genie, which is carried by interceptor planes, yields one-tenth kiloton (100 tons). The state of the stockpile of these weapons is secret, but no U.S. authority can be found who does not believe that...