Word: do-it-yourself
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...nuclear worries is Charles de Gaulle's determination to give France its own atomic striking force. After De Gaulle exploded two of his costly bombs in the Sahara, other NATO powers knew that the time was coming when West Germany-which already possesses the knowhow to make cheap, do-it-yourself A-bombs-might also insist on an independent atomic force. This is a prospect that even the majority of Germans regard without enthusiasm and which raises distinct hackles on other NATO necks, most notably Britain...
...pursued an editorial policy of honesty and decency." The President of the Executive Committee accused the staff of perpetuating an "in-bred philosophy," and the committee started publishing the paper and deciding editorial policy. Censorship is the usual way to force editorial changes, but the Student Government employed instead a do-it-yourself method. Neither device is a particularly effective means of ensuring journalistic responsibility...
...more mechanically minded, do-it-yourself dinosaur construction kits are on sale. These kits provide a mass of miniature plastic Tyrannosaurus Rex bones from which the prospective paleontologist can construct his own small scale dinosaur skeleton...
...still there. House drama groups will flourish in the future as they have in the past and the young man who feels happier working as his own carpenter can always find the lift and the lumber, but it is irrelevant to say so, for if our faith is grounded on do-it-yourself stagecraft, why did we build the Loeb? And neither, and for the same reason, is it an adequate answer to point out that the Loeb contains an experimental theater which can equal any cellar for bareness and surpass it in adaptability, for why then the big stage...
...atmosphere created by current Civil Defense measures has unquestionably instilled in the American public a certain complacency about nuclear war. If bomb shelters are to be built, they should very clearly symbolize the threat of ultimate destruction. But when every drug store in every town carries a large stock of "do-it-yourself" bomb shelter kits, when Civil Defense authorities publicly argue about the most attractive design for an underground city, Civil Defense measures come to symbolize the prospects for ultimate security. But to accept such artificial security is to hide from the clearest and most terrifying reality...