Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down, down, down, down. Then, up; then down. Straight ahead. Full power. The speedometer needle moved rapidly clockwise, receding only as the Nautilus took sharp banks and turns . .Then, up again; then, down again; up again; down again ... I asked Admiral [Hyman] Rickover how many days the Nautilus could proceed under water at full speed. 'Indefinitely,' he answered.'Long enough to go the distance around the world, and the answer would still be indefinite. ' " Back on dry land, the Senate and the House...
...perspective, Senate Republican Leader Knowland struck another note that would impress many readers of the Yalta papers. Said he: "If the disclosures dis courage two or three nations from thinking they can sit down behind closed doors -with no responsibility to their elected representatives and to the people-and proceed to parcel out nations and people without their consent, they will have served their purpose. Whether it be at Yalta. Potsdam or Geneva, a useful purpose will be served if every official who participates in negotiations realizes that he has an ultimate accounting to the people and that his decisions...
...fourth big power were judged ridiculous by the three others because they really were." Le Monde saw it as a parallel to Sir Winston's recent letter to Pierre Mendès-France. warning that if Paris rejected German rearmament, the Allies would once again have to proceed with an "empty chair...
...says he does not know enough to write of the political controversy over the H-bomb, "but I feel that great gratitude is due to the men who in those difficult weeks [after the Soviet atomic explosion about Sept. 1, 1949] arrived at the correct conclusions," i.e., to proceed with all possible speed toward the development of an H-bomb. Teller's account minimizes his own part in that development far beneath the credit given him by other scientists, including J. Robert Oppenheimer. Says Teller: "I want to claim credit in one respect only. I believed and continued...
...essence of their briefing was this: more and more Germans are beginning to hesitate about rearmament, fearful that to proceed with it will foreclose for good the chance of reuniting Germany. The trend is not yet alarming enough to threaten final parliamentary approval of the Paris rearmament accords next month. But unless checked, such sentiment may block the conscription laws and other legislation essential to establish a German army...