Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This conclusion was reached by Washington after tracking eleven Soviet launchings since Sept. 17, 1966, in which attempts were made to return pay loads to the ground within less than one complete orbit. The success of the Russian experiments has been such, McNamara indicated, that an orbital bombing system capable of dropping nuclear warheads on America may well be operational some time next year...
...Soviet orbital bomb is principally designed against vulnerable American bomber bases. While admitting that there is no foolproof defense against massive Soviet ICBM and FOBS attacks on cities, McNamara argued, as is his wont, that the best deterrent continues to be the immense target killing powers of the ground-based U.S. ICBM arsenal, the roughly 600 nuclear-armed strategic bombers and 650 Polaris missiles...
...head with a board." Weinstein gave him $50 to help stuff the body into a trunk and load it in a rented car, Hammell told police. Then Weinstein, Hammell and two teenage friends drove into the countryside to find a burial place. Hammell said that the ground was either too muddy or too hard, and they decided to return to Philadelphia and throw the trunk in the river...
...thinkers have denounced patriotic pride for one of its unhappiest effects: the irrational hatred that one people aims at a "lesser" people. Arnold Toynbee attributes the death of Greco-Roman civilization to patriotic wars between city states-and failure to establish international law. Early Christians rejected patriotism on the ground that man's obligations are to God, and after that to all of humanity. A Jesuit general once called patriotism "the most certain death of Christian love." There is no question that chauvinism-hyperpatriotism-can be induced in any country, including a democracy, where truth may be a poor...
Three old men are sitting on a park bench in Athens, reading newspapers. The man on the left coughs. The man on the right coughs. The first one spits on the ground. The second one spits on the ground twice. They both sigh. The man in the middle throws his paper away and gets up angrily, saying, "For God's sake, enough political conversation...