Word: duds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leverett played a strong defensive game, with linemen Nobie Smith and Dave Norse holding the Eliot attack in the crucial last minutes. House Football Standings W L T WIN. 5 0 0 DUN. 4 0 1 ADAMS 3 1 1 LEV. 1 2 2 ELIOT 1 2 2 DUD. 1 3 1 LOW. 1 3 1 KIRK...
...Marking the papers public at this time is clearly and transparently an attempt to make domestic political gains," Schlesinger continued. "However, as a political bombshell, it is a dud...
...could tell immediately the true nature of the object. It might be a genuine dud, i.e., an atomic bomb that did not explode as intended. It might be a delayed-action bomb, or it might be a harmless casing deliberately filled with inert material. The people of the attacked city, unless quickly reassured, would be apt to be as panicked by a cheap dummy bomb as by an expensive real one that might explode any second into a white-hot ball of fire a couple of miles in diameter...
...other hand, a dud should not be ignored. It may be merely waiting, some subtle device in its innards measuring off the seconds before it explodes. The enemy could drop a few such dangerous sleepers into rivers or harbors just to make sure that dummies dropped later would be treated with proper respect...
...Ment, raising the problem for military engineers to consider, gives no solution. Even experts would have a hard time distinguishing a delayed-action bomb from a dud or a harmless fake, especially if the object had been seen to sink to the bottom of the harbor. Civil defense authorities would have to decide promptly whether to evacuate the city, and a wrong decision either way would prove costly. In any case, the threatening object would have to be investigated, and this would not be a job for the poor in spirit. "An atomic-bomb disposal unit," says De Ment conservatively...