Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocket-rattling with professional seriousness. SAC began to cut down the "reaction time" of its strike force-hundreds of bombers-from two hours to 15 minutes. This was the Air Force's best estimate of the warning SAC bases would get before an enemy missile strike (TIME, Nov. 25). If an "instant readiness" deterrent force was to be any deterrent at all, it had to be airborne before the threatening missiles could cripple it on the ground. Since then, SAC has learned how to get B-52 heavy-jet and B-47 medium-jet bombers airborne, hydrogen bombs...
...look like Cinderella, but he must also have a sure touch with the fairy godmother's political wand. Bob Meyner was Cinderellegant last November; he swept to a second term at Trenton with the highest vote total (1,000,000) ever registered by a New Jersey Democrat (TIME, Nov. 18). And last week his political wand struck sparks. Winner in a tight battle for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator: handpicked, hand-pushed Meyner Candidate Harrison A. Williams...
...fond allies. But before the two World Wars, the opposite was more often the case. As late as the end of the 19th century, Britain's obvious partner in trade, diplomacy and royal bedrooms was Germany. "The natural alliance," said Salisbury's Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain on Nov. 30, 1899, "is between ourselves and the great German Empire...
...willing to assist the young Radcliffe Orchestra in some of its bigger concerts. But the Radcliffe Orchestra did not suffer from the lack of Pierian assistance in its separate concerts. "The spirit of the young players lent to their music a vitality not always found among professionals"--Boston Globe, Nov...
Western miners and Congressmen who had complained bitterly about the freeze (TIME, March 10) were not entirely satisfied that the AEC has thawed enough. Milling capacity will be boosted only in areas where ore bodies were developed before last Nov. 1, thus giving no encouragement to the development of new finds or combatting the sharp decline in U.S. prospecting in the last six months. But Western miners hope that more thawing weather...