Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testing, an ominous phrase, "the neutron bomb," echoed across the U.S. last week. It resounded through Congress, leaked into the press, was broadcast on TV and radio. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd, the N-bomb's most enthusiastic proponent, told the Senate: "We are in mortal peril. More than a year has passed since I first spoke on the folly of the test-ban moratorium. I mentioned the neutron bomb would operate as a kind of death ray. It would do next to no physical damage and result in no contamination, but it would immediately destroy...
...every tatter in its mortal dress...
...described President Frondizi of Argentina in terms so revolting that I will not repeat them.* The official Cuban radio has poured shrill invectives on governments and leaders throughout the hemisphere, and the more democratic and progressive the government, the more the regime recognizes it as a mortal enemy and all the more savage becomes its abuse." Time after time Castro has "avowed...
...most unlikely god am I, being all of earth and mortal nature...
...peace and war," "the great tactician,'' "skilled in all ways of contending," "all craft and gall," admired as much for his divinely inspired chicanery as for his handiwork with spear, bow or tiller. Although favored by Pallas Athena, he was not a superhuman figure but a very mortal man, in his own words as rendered by Fitzgerald...