Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to justify U.S. intervention on behalf of the established government in Latin American revolutions. ¶ Israel, unconvinced that U.N. support alone could keep Hussein on his throne, was plugging for a great-power guarantee of all existing Mideast frontiers. If Russia wished to be a Middle East power, let it be made to guarantee Israeli as well as Arab borders. ¶ India flatly opposed dispatch of U.N. troops to Lebanon and Jordan. One reason : India wants no precedents established for sending blue-and-white-helmeted U.N. forces into disputed Kashmir...
...Communists had first threatened to boycott the conference unless the West agreed beforehand to stop its tests, but when soft-spoken James B. Fisk, executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories, announced that the U.S. would show up anyway, the Communists decided to let their scientists go too. One of Gromyko's top aides, Semyon Tsarapkin, kept a beady eye on things, but the top Soviet scientist, jovial Evgeny Fedorov, turned out on occasion to be freer to make decisions without consulting home than the Westerners (including scientists from Britain, France and Canada). After seven weeks' discussion...
Then Khrushchev let them have it. Kuibyshev was a wonderful achievement, he repeated, but was it the best way to create electricity? A hydropower station took from seven to ten years to build. But thermal power stations, using natural gas or low-grade coal, could be run up in three years or less. And the "point at issue," cried Nikita, is to win time "in the competition with capitalism, to catch up with and outstrip the United States in the per capita output of the population...
Month after month Vo worked on, an implacable, improbable figure huddled in his corner, typing out endless copy. He had no money. His appeals were stenciled on the blank sides of U.N. press releases; his lunch was carrots and lettuce. A sympathetic Swiss matron let him move his tent to her grounds. When the winter nights got too cold, he crept into a doll-house on the estate and slept with a hot-water bottle over his heart...
Main trouble: AET is not yet ready even for testing on humans, let alone for the bathroom medicine chest, because it causes too many undesirable side effects-including nausea and a drop in blood pressure. How soon trials in human volunteers can begin, no man knows. (First subjects would be cancer patients who might be able to take higher and more curative doses of radiation.) Other snags: AET must be taken at least 15 minutes before exposure to radiation, gives full protection for only about an hour. It may take years to find related chemicals that will be less toxic...