Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says the report: "Foreseeable new offensive weapons such as ICBMs-sudden in action, massively destructive, difficult to destroy either before launching or in flight-will greatly aggravate the problems of strategic defense and enormously increase its costs...
...grass green and the sky blue? Why do fried potatoes turn brown? What is the molecular secret of life itself? The answers could not shoot and therefore should not be bought with defense dollars. Why would anyone want to go to the moon? An outer-space satellite could not destroy a target and should therefore have a relatively low priority. In 1957, for example, Wilson's research and development cuts took the Army down from $596 million to $327 million, the Navy from $666 million to $505 million ("That's a lotta money to spend on research, young...
...regularly or occasionally, apply to our psychiatric staff for guidance and treatment. Such treatment requires for its effectiveness complete confidence on the part of the student in his psychiatrist. Criticism in this area is a matter to be handled with great delicacy; here assertion becomes action--action which might destroy the necessary confidence. I have found Dr. Farnsworth's book most sensible and even wise. But although, as a teacher, I have had some experience with emotional troubles in students, still I speak only as a layman. I will therefore urge your readers to withhold any judgement on this book...
...about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation that would destroy mankind. Like Noah, Ziusudra determined when the waters had subsided by releasing birds from...
...Public apathy is forcing manufacturers of Salk polio vaccine to destroy hundreds of thousands of doses. About 25 million shots are stockpiled, with little demand during the season of low incidence when the public tends to forget polio. And unused vaccine must be destroyed after six months. Doctors' reminder: anyone beginning a three-shot vaccination series now can finish it before the polio season's summer peak in most...