Word: radius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden as their enemy and the old imperialist Prime Minister as their secret friend. Had he not thundered that he would not preside at the liquidation of the Empire? Churchill sat back while his War Secretary, Antony Head, explained on a map why the H-bomb's destructive radius would make the base untenable in a major war. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler then got up to say that he was not prepared to continue spending ?50 million yearly to maintain the canal base as an imperial monument...
What were the Red conditions for the release? Said the colonel: "We want you to cease all air attacks within a radius of six miles of the Dienbienphu valley, and also along 70 miles of Route Coloniale 41 between Dienbienphu and Sonla. We use this road to evacuate our wounded and your own healthy prisoners...
...style, will run "just fast enough to win." He has been as persistent in keeping to this formula as he has been in refusing bids to run outside of the Boston area. Barthel announced earlier in the season that he would not run anywhere outside a 50-mile radius of Boston, with perhaps one exception in late June. He recently turned down a chance to run in the Benjamin Franklin mile at the Penn Relays...
...were frequent in the '30's, usually brought Lowell residents into the courtyard, armed with noisemakers and determined to drown out the uproar in the tower. Their efforts were unsuccessful. On a clear day, the bells could be heard for fifteen miles, and if conditions were exceptionally favorable, the radius of total destruction was reputed to be forty-two. House Master Julian Coolidge, who hardly shared President Lowell's enthusiasm for the bells, once complained that when rung they cracked his plaster...
...upcoming test of "Jughead," the 45-megaton bomb, would produce a radius of approximately 6.7 miles of utter destruction and 22.3 miles of severe-to-slight blast damage. Jughead's calculated effects on some major U.S. cities...