Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb fallout, but it pointed the way to some speculation. Strauss's "operational factors" presumably refer chiefly to the altitude at which the weapons are exploded. The 1954 H-bomb test that made "7,000 square miles of territory ... so contaminated that survival might have depended on prompt evacuation" (according to the AEC's own reports) was exploded on a tower on a small coral island. Its fireball dug a deep crater and tossed millions of tons of pulverized coral into the air. This material, made highly radioactive by contact with the fireball, was the poisonous "atomic snow...
...possibility of a long strike worries Administration economists, worries industry, and worries the union rank and file. With the Federal Government committed to staying out of the picture as long as possible, it is precisely the economic pressures of the industry-union worry that will prompt a more rapid, more solid settlement...
...their forewords, Roman Catholic George N. Shuster calls the book "a sort of hymn," and Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr says: "It is ... one of the most rewarding ironies of history that only a very great evil can prompt such martyrdom as these pages . . . illumine . . . While there is a problem for the German nation about the guilt of having allowed the Nazi tyranny to come to power among them, it is fortunately true that the German people were also responsible for the lives and deeds of heroism and martyrdom in which the horrible evil was resisted...
...rose to demand assurances from the government that "breaches of the peace are treated by the police as breaches of the peace and not simply as acts of high spirits because they happen to occur among the rich and influential." The question, though it named no names, brought a prompt and unprecedented reply from Kensington Palace. The Duke of Kent, said a palace statement, was indeed at the parties referred to but was "in no way involved" in their fruitier moments...
...often said that early cancer is curable. Yet almost every doctor knows patients who discovered a tiny mass, had prompt treatment, but soon died from fast-spreading disease. Why? Main reason, says the University of Chicago's Pathologist Paul E. Steiner, is that "early" means many different things...