Word: instants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trundles the armadillo, scarcely noticing a wide hole in the ground. From the hole run two telephone lines; a few feet away, they connect to a pair of phones lying in a ditch. The armadillo scratches ahead. The lizard leaps from a rock. The telephones are mute. For an instant, the desolate scene seems like the end of the world...
...Western Germany the impact of Schlechta's findings was instant. Said Hamburg's newspaper Die Welt: "A new Nietzsche dates from this edition." In Schlechta's interpretation, Nietzsche's "will to power" emerges not (or not alone) as man's will to mastery over other men, but as his will to a sort of excellence or virtue in his own inner being. Far from upholding Deutschland-über-Alles traditions of Germanic superiority, this Nietzsche is the elite-minded aristocrat who wrote scornfully of his countrymen: "The Germans are responsible for the neurosis called nationalism...
...Force had long been concerned about the mounting costs and complexities of the U.S.'s liquid-fueled missiles-the ICBMs Atlas and Titan, the IRBMs Thor and Jupiter-and had also been aware that long-countdown liquid-fuel missiles were not weapons of true instant retaliation. Barred by the Defense Department temporarily from solid-fuel development, the Air Force was impressed by the rapid progress and strategic potential of the Navy's solid-fuel Polaris. Months ago Schriever's men got down to work adapting the Polaris' developments to Air Force concepts...
...Instant Thrust. The Navy first hit full speed with the Polaris system early last year, after it ditched the idea of adapting the Army's bulky liquid-fuel Jupiter for shipboard use. As Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke said, the Navy needed "an IRBM with salt water in its veins." Burke picked peppery, redheaded Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 52, to run the Polaris program, tossed Raborn a bankroll of $37 million for a start. "Red" Raborn, who moves so fast that he will only drink instant coffee (and sometimes a Scotch-and-water), rounded...
...Sudanese reaction was instant...