Word: hounding
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...danger that Soviet progress in antiaircraft missiles will cancel out SAC's power has been largely overcome by U.S. progress in air-to-ground missiles, which will enable bombers to fire at targets hundreds of miles away. Most promising: the 500-mile nuclear Hound Dog. Under development are new Hound Dog versions with ranges up to 1,000 miles...
...Gaulle is capable of an unexpected humor. In his teens he was famed for his rendition of the "nose" speech from Cyrano de Bergerac?an act that involved masterful use of his own huge nose. And at his infrequent press conferences, he has employed his long, basset-hound countenance to immensely comic effect...
Illusion of Truth. Classical statues impart a keen delight in the body, in health and in motion. They create-as in the lean hunting hound and the happy teenager below-uncanny illusions of physical truth. This concern for truth to nature and esthetic illusion was to become the wellspring of the Renaissance and of practically all great European...
...spoof people, Bil has generally used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...
...Force announced last week that it is canceling its air-to-ground missile Rascal, now surpassed by the longer-range Hound Dog. Due soon, on orders from the President, is an appallingly long-delayed decision between the rival liquid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the Air Force's Thor and the Army's Jupiter. Last week's splendid 6,300-mile performance by Atlas may also firm a tentative decision to slow down on or drop the Air Force's alternative intercontinental ballistic missile Titan. Also to be cut back or discarded: the Navy...