Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vacationers too raved to their colleagues about the world beyond the Charles a bronzed Walter Sullivan said his trip to Del Ray Beach Florida, with half of his eight grandchildren, "was super just super...
...calling for an all-out program, along the lines of the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb, to build a defense system in space. He envisioned a network of orbiting sensors that would detect a Soviet attack as soon as it was launched, then trigger giant remote-control ray guns that would destroy attacking rockets or their warheads before they could do any damage...
...case against Star Wars rests on a cluster of mutually reinforcing arguments. Strictly on technical grounds, experts all across the ideological spectrum doubt that space-based ray guns would work well enough to vindicate Reagan's vision. To provide the sort of blanket protection the President and Teller originally had in mind, the system would have to offer a 100% guarantee (an untested guarantee at that) of intercepting and disarming an entire huge barrage of Soviet warheads. If even a tiny percentage of the warheads "leaked" through, the devastation in the U.S. would be horrendous, and the American leadership...
...strategic defense should be launched unless a comprehensive arms-control program that places sharp limits on offensive weapons is established first. That way, strategic defense might conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
...saying. Among the works created under the academy's aegis: the sculpture of Carl Milles, Tony Rosenthal, Harry Bertoia and others; the rugs and wall hangings of Eliel Saarinen's wife Loja, his daughter Pipsan and Marianne Strengell; and the furniture and furnishings of Charles and Ray Eames, Bertoia and Eero Saarinen. Says Met Curator Miller: "Cranbrook's artists all conceived their work in an architectural context and believed in the totality of design from the largest to the smallest detail...