Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tardily but impressively, a simulated mushroom cloud rose over the coastal hills of Thracian Turkey. Huge amphibious tanks churned up golden Aegean beaches, and troop-laden helicopters scissored down out of azure Mediterranean skies. Then 8,000 U.S. Marines who had come 6,000 miles from Virginia in four weeks, landed in Turkey last week to grab a stake of ground just north of the historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO...
...artist-man and the mother-woman, combined with discussion of the relative merits of Heaven and Hell, there is the consolation of some very excellent special effects. The Hell scene is opened with an eerie concert of Devil's helpers, and characters appear with great explosions and mushroom puffs of smoke. The lighting by Greg Harney contributes also to the success of the Hell scene as it does to the entire production...
...word "collusion" hung like a mushroom-shaped cloud over the Suez debate in the House of Commons last week...
...establishing a new college, the "mother" institution would purportedly be able to concentrate primarily on its own educational problems without feeling any obligation to mushroom in size. Other inducements include a reported desire on the part of the sponsoring foundation to diversify the location of the nation's first-rate universities, which are now primarily concentrated in the East...
...Indiana's Bill Jenner. He linked his demand for an end to H-bomb tests with his proposals to end the draft: "We don't want our boys to be drafted," he said at Akron. "We don't want to live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud." At Youngstown. before an enthusiastic crowd of more than 10,000, he devoted a full-dress speech to military manpower. The gist: the draft, with its rapid manpower turnover, is wasteful, needlessly expensive and unsuited to an "age of complex new weapons and new military needs." His suggested alternative...