Word: kineticism
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KINETIC-ENERGY WEAPONS. They are simply objects like rockets, homing vehicles or even pellets fired at a missile, bus or warhead to destroy it by sheer impact. They are potentially effective at any stage from boost to re-entry, and can be fired either from the ground or from space...
He was suggesting that we no longer resign ourselves to the existence of 50,000 nuclear charges in the superpowers' arsenals and the perverse confidence that a balance of terror will prevent any of them from ever going off. The President imagined a time when those weapons could be rendered...
Conable, who had studied medieval history at Cornell and American history throughout his adult life, suddenly had live figures to fit into an intellectual framework. He recalls thinking on that day in 1965 that Johnson was "a kinetic personality" who believed he could find an answer to every problem. In...
Movie musicals are the other historical touchstones: the grand ballroom turns of Astaire and the sidewalk acrobatics of Gene Kelly in essence. But in fact, and in direct lineage, nothing connects the video present with the movie past so directly as three films made in England. There were the two...
MTV receives an average of two dozen new tapes every week and insists that it will play all of them, as long, in Les Garland's words, "as they have no gratuitous sex or violence, are technically sound and feature rock-'n'-roll music." The executives, not...