Word: progress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrogen weapons "beyond rational bounds," but a series of Red-started limited wars in which the Communists might inflict "a kind of piecemeal defeat." In such wars, said Murray, the U.S. would need "great numbers of tactical nuclear weapons of low-kiloton yield. Our security vitally depends on continued progress in perfecting the technology of small weapons, and this progress cannot be assured without tests." Beyond that, Murray attacked the whole basis of a nuclear policy pitched to world opinion in a tough cold war. "Public opinion both in America and abroad," said he, "remains in the grip of unreasoning...
...long as hunger and despair haunt hundreds of millions of people, said the President of the U.S. last week, in a far-seeing foreign-policy pronouncement, "peace and freedom will be in danger throughout the world. For wherever free men lose hope of progress, liberty will be weakened and the seeds of conflict will be sown. In working together to create that hope of progress, we raise barriers against tyranny and the war which tyranny breeds...
...toward week's end, any illusions of progress toward negotiated disarmament got a sudden jolt. In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviet Union had set off two nuclear explosions since the start of the Geneva conference. The explosions, "both of relatively low yield," took place in southern Russia, said AEC, rather than at the Arctic site "where most of the tests in recent weeks have been held." President Eisenhower promptly issued a statement notifying the world that "this action by the Soviet Union relieves the U.S. from any obligation under its offer to suspend nuclear-weapons...
Ever since Orville Wright took to the air in 1903, the progress of commercial aviation has been evolutionary. Planes grew bigger and faster, in predictable steps; for the past quarter-century they have increased their speed each year by 8 m.p.h. Today all that is ancient history. Evolution has become revolution with...
...lecturer, Bishop of Madura and Ramnad, further observed that modern western society cannot have the cyclical, chronological viewpoint found in the East. He cited his own country, India, as an example: time there is observed in sixty year cycles, with no distinction of progress from one cycle to the next...