Word: gram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another use will be in "Big Brother" reconnaissance satellites now in the planning stage. If they get electricity for working their television transmitters from small nuclear reactors, as has been proposed, they will need radiation-resistant tubes. Every gram of weight counts on a satellite. Big Brother will have no grams to spare for heavy shielding...
...attack on Congress Party corruption, Bhave outlined his latest solution for India's troubles: "The existing form of government must be liquidated at an early date and replaced by gram raj [village government]." The social structure would be recast by having everyone over 21 years elect "Bhoodan committees" to redistribute all the land, according to need based on the size of families. Though there is precedent for such ideas in the teachings of Gandhi, Bhave had found other sympathizers for his leveler's commonwealth. Said he: "The Communists have assured me of their cooperation...
Mindful of his mission, Gruenther lets no group that might influence opinion pass through Paris unnoticed. Whatever the group, he whips off a G-gram demanding information. ("I should like to know more about that Machine Tool Association whom we are briefing on Friday. What are some of their problems?") By the time he has to speak, he knows that the group comprises 29 manufacturers from eight countries, is highly interested in developing and adapting standardized equipment for NATO needs, and that he can warmly commend them on their interest. With such a preface, he swings into his discussion...
...other major issues party groupings will be clearer, although hardly ever unanimous. Key items: Farm Policy. Democrats will attempt to make a major issue of falling income on the farm, but Republicans hope to steal the ball by coming forward with a pro gram to put more money in the farmers' pockets. The chances are against a return to high (90% of parity), rigid price sup ports as a general policy; the chances are excellent for the establishment of a soil-bank plan, under which farmers would get cash benefits for switching land from surplus to soil-building crops...
...Middle East, somnolent, hot, primitive, resembles what scientists call a critical mass. Add one extra gram, and all sorts of violent reactions are set off: atoms break loose, rush about, rearrange themselves in new patterns. The extra gram that had set the Middle East fissioning and fusing was the sale of Communist arms to Egypt. Last week this dance of the atoms was going on to the accompaniment of shudders, groans and forebodings from the journalistic moaner's corner, led by those partners in anguish, the Alsop brothers. But despite their outcries, all was not yet lost in the Middle...