Word: lopping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese have scheduled their own disarmament speech this week, but they have already upstaged themselves. On the remote Lop Nor proving grounds in Sinkiang region, Chinese technicians detonated their first atomic explosion in more than a year. It was a small bomb, as such things go-the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. That is almost exactly the size of the one that demolished Hiroshima...
...whole series of guises-from young Jimmy Olsen-type reporter to revolutionary vaudevillian. And, in what is possibly the best piece of the lot, Lukas follows young Watts poet Johnny Scott into streets where "dogs: strays and wanderers, wild scruffy hounds with yellow fangs and frothy lips, lop[e] in packs through the streets, yelping at cars, overturning trashcans, chasing little black boys all the way home...
While the defensive aspect of the game should be a closely fought match-up, Harvard has a distinct advantage over the Bruins on offense. Except for a lop-sided win over Yale, Brown has not established any large margins of victory. In four Ivy games. the Bruins have scored only six goals...
Massachusetts voters chose personalities over parties yesterday, re-electing Democratic Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent by surprisingly lop-sided margins...
...eleven-day session commemorating the 25th anniversary of the United Nations was just getting under way when the statesmen's words of peace were upstaged by the contrapuntal sounds of a world still preparing for doomsday. The discordant notes came from Novaya Zemlya on the Arctic Circle, from Lop Nor in China's Sinkiang province, and from the Nevada desert. For the first time since the nuclear era was born (like the U.N., just 25 years ago), the Soviet Union, Communist China and the U.S. all exploded experimental nuclear weapons on the same...