Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...
...just finished making a new portable seismograph, designed to record the earth vibrations caused by dynamite explosions. That was last spring. Like most Americans, Harvard's Professor L. Don Leet had never heard of the Manhattan Project. But in June, the professor was tapped lightly on the shoulder and spirited away to New Mexico. There his new gadget went to work recording the biggest man-made explosion in history...
Chapter 5, para. 34, page 87, H. D. Smyth's official report on the atomic project: "President Truman, who as a United States Senator had been aware of the project and its magnitude...
Thousands of people wrote in from all over the world. Some wanted to buy stock in the project; others to make their reservations early. Merchant mariners galore (mates, plain sailors) asked for jobs aboard the ferries. G.I.s and navy men sent in their qualifications and said they would take any old job. Some writers just wanted to express their admiration...
Behind the Soviet move was opposition to Belgium's chubby, tennis-playing Paul Henri Spaak, leading advocate of the Russian-feared project for a western bloc of European nations. He was Britain's candidate for the post...