Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Western ambassadors seemed to be-against the unity of the allies. Said Gromyko: "Reckless flights of American bombers extend the fearful shadow of atomic war to the British and the French, to the people of Western Germany, to the peoples of all countries who have been bound hand and foot by military commitments to the U.S. and who have allowed American atomic and rocket bases to be built on their territory. One must be blind not to see in our time the dangerous consequences...
...increase international tension in order to get the maximum from a top-level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful Asians that Russia has a deep respect for U.S. striking power...
...assumed that it will fail, and it must be designed so that its failure will do minimal or no harm. Fail Safe on U.S. railroads, for example, means "the dead man's throttle." If an engineer dies at the controls, his pressure on a foot pedal or hand lever is released, and the train automatically goes into an emergency stop. Fail Safe at SAC means that SAC bomber crews, launched in an alert, do not proceed toward their preassigned target beyond a preassigned coordinate point without a coded follow-up command. Only beyond the Fail Safe point...
...last November; he swept to a second term at Trenton with the highest vote total (1,000,000) ever registered by a New Jersey Democrat (TIME, Nov. 18). And last week his political wand struck sparks. Winner in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator: handpicked, hand-pushed Meyner Candidate Harrison A. Williams...
...mood of the play is Beckett's familiar ravaging despair. Perhaps its climax occurs when the old woman quotes the Bible: "The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all that be bowed down"--and then bursts into wild laughter. The manner, on the other hand, is a new one for Mr. Beckett. All That Fall is set, not in the middle of nowhere, but quite recognizably in the Irish countryside. If you allow his characters the rhetorical skill and the comic eccentricities that everybody does allow the Irish, the play is not far from being realistic...