Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since I am convinced that the earth is round, I hate to think that Russia might get an idea to "knock" on the back door of NORAD via the South Pole. Did not the Germans once bypass the famous Maginot line...
While NORAD estimates that it could knock out 70% of any attacking bomber force with interceptors and Nike-Ajax, Nike-Hercules and BOMARC missiles, it can do nothing at all to stop an enemy missile after it detects one. For that reason General Kuter, in flat disagreement with most Air Force brass, urges speedy development of the Army's controversial Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. Says he: "We urgently need something, even though catching the enemy's missiles after he has thrown them and at the last minute is a poor way to play ball...
...little apolitical potshooting in the duck-rich Sacramento Valley. "Both of them." assured Comrade at Arms (and Sacramento City Manager) Bartley Cavanaugh. "are careful hunters, and there is no shooting over the limit." Diplomatically unreported by Cavanaugh was the fact that while the Chief Justice did. in fact, knock down his limit of five mallards and sprigs, the city-bred Governor managed to bag only four...
...attack "directed at the destruction of the country's capacity to retaliate," or an attack on "the corporate body of the enemy state itself" (in Admiral Burke's Phrase). Piel says that our military experts base their shelter recommendations on the assumption that the enemy is most likely to knock out SAC bases and missile sites. Since the bulk of the population will not, then, be directly attacked, the dangers of a nuclear explosion itself need not seriously concern them. It follows from this reasoning that what the population must be protected against is fall-out. Or, as Piel puts...
...Nawn, and Joe Clark through graduation, but this year's spirit is excellent, and everybody is determined to make good on the move up to higher positions," he said. Barnaby pointed out that Harvard is the team to beat this year, and every other team will be gunning to knock the Crimson off its championship pedestal...