Word: punch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warheads designed for the Polaris and Minuteman solid-fuel missiles, which the U.S. is depending upon to close the missile gap in the mid-1960s, pack a nuclear punch of about half a megaton, compared with an estimated eight megatons carried by Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, and about three or four megatons in the nose cone of the U.S.'s Atlas ICBM. With additional nuclear tests, the yield of the Polaris and Minuteman warheads could be significantly increased, although Admiral William Raborn Jr. has said he needs no further tests of the present Polaris warhead. Some U.S. scientists...
...right now of a monster reactor. Over Los Angeles a layer of warm air (an inversion) hangs for long periods and traps beneath it the city's notorious smog. Dr. Hall believes that a reactor, operating at comparatively low temperature but generating 100 million kilowatts of heat, could punch a hole in the inversion and clear L.A. of smog...
...account of your worldwide circulation of over 3,000,000, it is my inalienable right to congratulate you. Of course, sometimes I have felt a genuine desire to punch some TIME writer in the nose, but more often I have felt a stronger desire to shake hands...
...crowd was patient, and only booed the intruding fireman (who may have remembered that the Modern was almost destroyed by fire a scant two years ago). What the connoisseurs witnessed for their pains was an unbeautiful joke with no punch line. As the New York Times's Critic John Canaday gently put it: "Mr. Tinguely makes fools of machines while the rest of mankind permits machines to make fools of them. Tinguely's machine wasn't quite good enough, as a machine, to make his point...
...bookkeeping brain in 1950, was made manager of the firm's accounting department in 1957 because he knew more about the system than anyone else. Thus he had no trouble working out a simple way to wholesale larceny. He would go to the office after hours, make out punch cards to show a withdrawal from Walston's big, fluctuating margin-interest account of some $300,000, put the money in his trading account, and punch out a deposit card. He would feed both cards into the machine. Since the computer kept books for both accounts, the auditors...