Word: holocaust
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...spend money on bombers than on welfare programs. And even when, like Bevan, they have been awakened to power realities by political responsibility, they cannot escape the fact that their political strength rests on voters who seem to believe that the only thing that can stave off nuclear holocaust is Western concessions to Moscow...
...necessary, to defend the Western position in Berlin. He called in congressional leaders of both parties to muster a show of national unity. He tried to restrain U.S. allies from sliding off on tangents, kept up a stern front as Communism's Khrushchev changed pace from "global holocaust" threats to such seeming concessions as an indefinite extension of the May 27 deadline for Berlin settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). All week, Dwight Eisenhower was the man in command of the Berlin situation, to the point of acting as his own Secretary of State...
...extra cars will be added to the regular holiday runs of the New Haven Railroad even in the event of a strike or worse weather conditions. A representative admitted "the situation is terrible" and could become a "holocaust" if traffic is diverted from the airlines to the N.Y.N.H. & H. R.R. He claimed costs and equipment do not allow an increase in cars even if desperately needed...
...home, the biggest headlines concerned the fire at Our Lady of the Angels grammar school in West Side Chicago, the city's worst fire since the Iroquois Theater holocaust in 1903. In the case of the Berlin story, TIME'S function was to supply the information and intelligence that would help the reader to be knowledgeable about Berlin rather than to fret over it. In the case of the Chicago fire, TIME had another task-to take the facts of tragedy and mold them into a compelling narrative of misfortune and error. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Chicago School...
...other hand, he added, some religious persons are suspicious enough of the secular university to believe that an organization like the Fellowship can "do no more than save a few souls from the encompassing holocaust...