Word: landed
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...author is not alone in his contention that even the most optimistic SALT agreement would not "eradicate the threat to our land-based missiles and thus cure the instability of the strategic balance." In explaining why true stabilization will not emerge from SALT, Ravenal deftly separates "arms control" from the control of "arms," in the generic sense. Because the former term implies the existence of a forum, agreements, inspection, and reciprocity, it cannot accommodate any effort at stabilization that may exist outside such a framework. Nor, he says, do the "posturing, stonewalling, constructing bargaining chips and .. games of chicken" that...
Accordingly, he says, we should not expand our forces, but retrench them. Ravenal would accomplish this by moving from the United States' present "triad" of nuclear forces to a "dyad." The U.S. should keep its bombers and submarines, he insists, but remove all its land-based missiles (veritable "sitting ducks," as he calls them) as they become more vulnerable to attack...
Radcliffe's proposed athletic facility on Observatory Hill originally prompted the Cambridge community to request a down-zoning this summer, when protests turned away from Radcliffe's project to focus on Harvard's long-range plans. The plans published in 1975 designate some of that land as a possible site for a parking garage although Harvard has no present plans to build a garage there...
Parrish accompanied Dunn in surveying the land for the most suitable stretch on which to play golf. Parrish later recorded his adventures with Dunn, writing, "Dunn teed up a ball and handed me a driver. By some fortunate dispensation of Providence, I happened to make a drive--all too frequently failing since of repetition in my 32 years of golf--and the ball went sailing over the embankment of the railroad track...this then having been the first ball ever struck on the Shinnecock Hills. It is needless to recall here the experience of thousands, and perhaps hundreds of thousands...
Over the years, the unkempt swathe of land also served as a favorite dumping ground for whiskey bottles. Dunn recalled, "One never knew when an explosion shot in a trap would bring out a couple of firewater flasks, or perhaps a bone...