Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what the Air Force called "a new dimension" in the nation's defense against enemy bombers. The new-dimension rocket was the Air Force's MB-1, or Genie (formerly dubbed Ding Dong and High Card), manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal" air-to-air nuclear rocket could destroy a whole flight of enemy bombers with the smash...
...honor guest at a London literary luncheon bearing an elegantly Victorian, 2-ft.-long ear trumpet. Waugh, not widely known to be hard of hearing, waggled his antique radar about happily while chatting with table companions, clowned his listening gear with a flourish when an old enemy, Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge rose to speak, crowed later: "I did not listen to a word he said. I do not like that man. We met once in Africa...
There are those to whom the scaffold is a pulpit and those to whom it is the stage for a ghoulish Punch-and-Judy show. One of the pulpiteers is Britain's ex-Hungarian, ex-Communist Arthur Koestler, whose brilliant contribution to the campaign for the abolition of hanging in Britain has been published in the U.S. To Koestler (who languished for months under sentence of death in a Franco prison), hanging is no joke. To Dublin's Brendan Behan...
From Control to Plans. Statistician Dublin's punch-card tabulators accurately foresaw, 20 years in advance, the great U.S. decline in the incidence of TB. He was among the first to focus attention on the growing menace of diabetes and the role of obesity in shortening life, and he sometimes spotted epidemics-in-the-mak-ing in faraway cities before local health officers did. A stocky, peppery father of four, he cried alarm in the '30s over the declining U.S. birth rate, persuaded birth-control proponents to change their pitch to planned parenthood, and was delighted when...
...against them: 1) they are built at very high cost in explosive yield, presumably because they cannot use cheap and plentiful uranium 238; and 2) they may be good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia and New York. "The fight for the clean...