Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cats & Guts. Even angrier was Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., wartime fighter pilot and vice president of Convair (prime contractor on the Atlas ICBM). The Pentagon, said Airman Lanphier, indulges in "dangerous semantics" by indicating that the Atlas will be reliably operational in the near future. Actually, said he, the Russians are two to three years ahead of the U.S. ICBM program because they have tested "hundreds" more parts. Convair could double its efforts on Atlas if the Pentagon so ordered, accelerate its B58 bomber program by three or four months and put 50 times as much work into its anti...
...politician sat on the edge of a sagging couch, downed numberless cups of coffee as he conferred busily with a steady flow of visitors. His Excellency Sayed Abdullah Khalil wants to win next month's election for his Umma (Nation) Party and keep the post he now holds: Prime Minister of the Sudan...
...Welfare and a principal architect of Canada's extensive social security system. But in the end Pearson's international reputation, easily transferred into prestige at home, carried him to a comfortable first-ballot victory. He takes over the party controls this week from Louis St. Laurent, 75, Prime Minister for nine years until last summer's election, who retired to make way for a younger...
...Liberals, spiritless and ineffectual in the House of Commons since their defeat, showed signs of reviving confidence. In a noisy three-day convention watched by a nationwide TV audience of millions, speakers hotly accused Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of antagonizing Canada's best customer, the U.S., with talk of diverting trade to Britain. The speakers linked the Conservatives' trade policies with Canada's economic slowdown and fast-rising unemployment...
...have refused so far to vote no confidence in the government and so precipitate another election. But now with a new leader, a fresh platform and reawakened aggressiveness, they may decide to join forces with one of the two minor parties, vote down the government, compel a new election. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, watching the Liberal convention last week on TV from his bedroom, where he was recuperating from a wrenched back, gave back the challenge. He was expected to call for a new vote of confidence this week, dare the Liberals to deny it and go to the country...