Word: means
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China came to blows, Russia would help Peking "with everything at its disposal." Peking itself, in a move clearly designed to lend color to future charges of "aggression" by the U.S., proclaimed that henceforth the limit of its territorial waters would be not three but twelve miles. This would mean, if the Reds could make it stick, that all of Quemoy and Matsu would be in Red China's waters...
When laymen say that someone died of a broken heart, they really mean a broken ego. Physicians agree that a deep blow to one's personality may lower physical resistance in some cases. Poorly handled losses have already been pointed to as triggers for many diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis, ulcerative colitis, heart failure. Question remains: does ego-damage really precipitate illness...
...Soviet impression that American industry is in favor of war so that war orders will continue to flow. Speaking solely as a capitalist, we industrialists are not at all happy about spending $40 billion a year for implements of war that, if they had to be used, would mean the destruction of all our property, and our annihilation at the same time. Don't forget that this arms race places a crushing burden of taxation on industry." Khrushchev understood, "because of the expense to us of our own defense effort," but said: "We are being driven most reluctantly...
...have been missed until she became overdue at Leyte two days later. There the fact that she was overdue was overlooked for more than a day. It was not immediately reported because a loophole-riddled directive saying "Arrival reports shall not be made for combatant ships" was construed to mean that non-arrivals were not to be reported either...
...missilemen are unlikely to go to such trouble for some time, though the news last week gave thrust to Bell stock on Wall Street. Trouble is that using liquid fluorine would mean redesigning present ICBM engines, which run well enough on more placid fuels...