Word: destructionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the meals, collective farm-girls plied the farmers with vodka, Georgian champagne and sweet wine, Moldavian muscatel, Ukrainian riesling, Armenian cognac and beer. "During the meal at least a dozen toasts are drunk to world peace, Soviet-American friendship, the exchange of ideas, and to women of both countries...
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME, May 23).
When a satellite finally slows and plunges to destruction in the lower atmosphere, its slowing can be followed from the earth. Then scientists can derive new information about the tenuous air that persists at 200 miles above the surface.
(See Cover) His legs are buckled into clumsy shin guards; his face is hidden by the metal grille of a heavy mask. Behind him, vague and impersonal, rises the roar of the crowd. His chest is covered with a corrugated protective pad, and his big mitt is thrust out as...
Hiroshima. A propaganda-heavy but harrowing Japanese-made film about the atomic destruction of a living city (TIME, May 23).