Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional seriousness. SAC began to cut down the "reaction time" of its strike force-hundreds of bombers-from two hours to 15 minutes. This was the Air Force's best estimate of the warning SAC bases would get before an enemy missile strike (TIME, Nov. 25). If an "instant readiness" deterrent force was to be any deterrent at all, it had to be airborne before the threatening missiles could cripple it on the ground. Since then, SAC has learned how to get B-52 heavy-jet and B-47 medium-jet bombers airborne, hydrogen bombs in their bellies, within...
...breakfast and are apt to cut a lot of classes. These people become tremendously apathetic immediately before they leave, more so than they ever will be again in their lives. Their decision to leave is the fist step into a more vigorous, healthy life and they feel better the instant they make it. I myself, view these people as a Charlie Chaplain at the end of a movie walking down the road with a stick over his shoulder...
...told himself between chattering teeth. "Come on!" He began to run. He ran clear around the football field as fast as his scrubby legs could carry him, and then ran round it again. He ran through the side door of the school auditorium. He ran onstage at the instant of his cue (Enter a Messenger), staggered up to the startled young Macbeth and collapsed in a spectacular wreckage of words: "Gra,(gasp!)cious my (gulp!) lord, I (sob!) should report that (wheeze!) which I (glug!) . . ." The audience gasped, gulped, stared, roared, crashed into applause...
...Congress the outline for his defense reorganization plan. It reflected his own military experience, bore his own touch. If carried through, it can ultimately be as important to the U.S. as any of its new weapons, because it gears the military establishment to fast decisions in the day of instant...
...saying, President Eisenhower last week sent Congress a hardheaded, sense-making set of recommendations for Defense Department reorganization that, if fought through to fulfillment, may be ranked among the major accomplishments of his Administration. The chief point: in cold war, and under threat of instant hot war, the U.S. military organization must be designed for instant action...