Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current phase of the cold war, one of the severest trials of strength with the adversary involves the ability to belt down toast after toast without falling over. The Russians have the advantage of longer familiarity with the chosen weapon, which is usually vodka...
Tell-tale Pattern. The waves from earlier U.S. and Soviet tests followed this pattern. But during this summer's tests, Japan's microbarographs showed a difference. With each explosion (the U.S. has announced only one), the initial, shortwave phase decreased, indicating that the bombs were being exploded higher and higher in the atmosphere. On July 3, the Japanese picked up a wave pattern" that had almost no short waves. Ito thinks this proves that the explosion took place above 22 miles. If it did, Ito reasons, the bomb must have been carried by a rocket. No existing bomber...
...hour dominated the television week. On Sunday night at 8, Comedian Steve (Tonight) Allen opened the latest phase of NBC's attack against CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show (TIME, June 25). NBC's ambitious objective: to grab Sullivan's audience, consistently rated the biggest or second biggest audience of any TV show...
...justified by necessity, was the price paid for the suppression of all democratic life inside the party and the state." Like Khrushchev, Nenni feels that at the time of the 1917 Revolution terror was justified: "It is a fact that the October Revolution would not have gone beyond the phase of civil war . . . if the proletariat had not shown indomitable will and the ability to take control of the apparatus of power of the Czarist state, to smash it, and to provide a substitute." But here Nenni runs into the dilemma of all Marxists: Once terror is accepted...
When this corruption from within the local church has been completed, the Communists move into the second phase to damp down the religious zeal so that gradually the Marxian "economic man" will supplant the Christian...