Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poseidon version can carry up to twelve warheads and has a 2,900-mile range. The Poseidon MIRVs are thus of the "low kiloton" type, designed to be used against cities, while the Minuteman Ill's might be used to hit the adversary's iCBMs in hardened silos. The Navy has begun to refit two of its Polaris submarines to handle Poseidons. According to present plans, 496 of the 656 missiles now aboard submarines will carry MIRVs...
...support and by the nation's growing concern about inflation. Liberals, who proposed to support the bill only in exchange for broad reform of the tax structure, were also outmaneuvered. To minimize their resistance, the committee added a provision reducing or eliminating the federal taxes of 13 million low-income people-a feature the liberals could hardly oppose. To ease the reformers' consciences further, Mills pledged a major tax-revision program by year's end. This compromise, originally suggested by Nixon, will cost the Treasury an estimated $625 million a year. The elimination of the investment credit...
...biological weapons have unique capabilities. They can be dispersed locally by hand grenades and land mines, or over broad areas with artillery shells, mortar rounds, bombs, airborne aerosols or even missiles like the Army's Sergeant. They constitute great offensive power that can be produced at relatively low cost. They are "search" weapons that seek out the enemy, even in his deepest bunkers, without destroying buildings or installations. In addition to those designed to kill, some agents can be used merely to disable...
...lithe figure moves barefoot through the semidarkness of a candlelit hall, stroking an outlandish array of gongs, cymbals, chimes and timpani. Amid the swelling percussion, a bamboo flute emits a low plaint. Sound ebbs and flows, rising to a crescendo, then dwindling to mystic silence...
...admen are not the least self-conscious about using heavy Negro dialect in their ads. Sample from an All-Pro radio commercial: "Good-lookin', don't shout. Go 'head on. Tell me 'bout it." League sees his agency's future in aiming ads at low-income groups of all colors, who together spend about $100 billion a year. Because black agencies concentrate on the ghetto, he figures, they have the best experience in selling to all the poor...