Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whirlaway bestseller, and this sequel spun into its second printing even before publication. It too is magnificently illustrated by Artist Hilary Knight, who has captured Eloise in a style that evokes British Cartoonist Ronald Searle's "Belles of St. Trinian's" and is best described as cutely lethal...
...against the 37,500-mile borders of the Soviet Union, each single aircraft capable of unloading on target the mighty equivalent of all the bombs dropped by all nations during World War II. Unlike the Kremlin's-headline-making experimental missiles, the U.S. thermonuclear strike force is lethal in the fighting man's sense of what is operational and what...
...uncommitted areas of the world, she said. Lack of knowledge and of understanding of our problems, inter-service rivalries, and a "McCarthyist" idea that the secrets of the A-bomb could be "locked up" has lost this race for America, she charged. She also criticized our emphasis on "lethal weapons...
...Captain Johannes Diebitsch barked his orders to douse sail, the blocks jammed on the foremast, broaching the bark broadside to the wind. In the nightmare of ripping canvas and splintering timber, much of the vessel's cumbersome top hamper came crashing down, covering the deck with a lethal spiderweb of flailing steel cables. Heavy wooden yardarms slashed right and left, battering lifeboats and rafts into pulp, and punching holes in the deck itself...
...willing to play only if the nations agree to ban the tests, ban the bomb-and, of course, ban any inspection system too. With a cynical show of amiability ("With the best will in the world we cannot see ..."), Bulganin proceeded to accuse the British of perfecting "the most lethal and destructive" weapons, under cover of "endless talks on the desirability of disarmament," and to charge that the West was deliberately sabotaging the London negotiations by tying disarmament issues to German reunification in a "deal" simply to help the Adenauer government win reelection. He threw in a gratuitous hint that...