Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though the ABM system is primarily designed to protect the U.S. against Chinese ICBMs, which are now said to be at least a year behind schedule, Clifford insisted that "current developments" force the U.S. to "press forward as planned with the Sentinel system." Opponents fear that this may even mean the eventual revival of the once-proposed (and rejected) larger ABM shield directed against Soviet missiles as well...
...future President, rather than unwisely committing him in advance to a specific course of action. Moreover, warned Missouri's Governor Warren Hearnes, an unconditional bombing halt could endanger U.S. servicemen. Boggs cited a statement by U.S. Viet Nam Commander Creighton Abrams to the effect that a bombing halt would mean a fivefold increase in enemy strength in the area of the Demilitarized Zone within two weeks. Many military experts consider Abrams' estimate an exaggeration...
...A.F.L. victories can only breed confidence. Says San Diego's Alworth: "The N.F.L. teams did such a terrific job of selling the idea that they were so superior to us that we were scared to death of playing them. Now we are convinced that we are just as mean as they...
When Motorola's executive vice president, C. Lester Hogan, quit last month to become president of rival Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he took seven colleagues along with him. Besides suffering a prompt drop in the price of its stock, Motorola began worrying that the mass exodus would mean a loss of trade secrets. Last week it acted. Filing suit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Motorola Inc. asked damages against Hogan, his associates and Fairchild, also sought to enjoin Fairchild from hiring away any more...
...suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown. He has learned the dispiriting lesson that freedom from colonialism does not mean freedom from exploitation-particularly when the new masters are black liberals less interested in tipping the revolution than in driving their recently acquired Mercedes. He has learned that the lusts for both blood and money know no ideology. He has learned that, for all these problems, there are "no saviors. Only the hungry...