Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Framing his resolution so that it would lay the groundwork for similar legislation on space agencies, he sounded out Democrats and Republicans alike for reaction. Last week, when G.O.P. leaders discovered what he had in mind, they hotfooted it to the White House, warned that Johnson was about to capture another popular issue just as he had captured defense preparedness...
...statement on investments pleased the oilmen and steelmen who hold most of the U.S.'s $3 billion investment in Venezuela. In the aftermath of the revolt, some resentment had flared against the U.S. for having maintained comfortable relations with the dictator; with this feeling was mingled a reaction against recent cutbacks in U.S. imports of Venezuelan...
Skulduggery & Gore. Besides reassuring foreigners. Larrazabal's speech sparked a warm reaction among Venezuelan businessmen. Every chamber of commerce in the country promptly pledged support. The Roman Catholic Church celebrated a special Requiem Mass for the more than 300 killed in the fighting. As Larrazabal capped his first week by announcing that elections for a constituent assembly will be held before the year is up, presidential elections six months later, investigators began rooting through the ruins of Pérez Jiménez' tumbled empire. Newspapers filled columns with gruesome stories of the dictator's sadistic security...
MISSILE MERGER will bring together Reaction Motors, Inc. and Thiokol Chemical Corp., two of industry's fastest-rising pioneers. In $7,200,000 stock exchange, Thiokol, which specializes in solid-fuel engines for Nike-Hercules, La Crosse and Lockheed X-17 missiles, will absorb Reaction, a leader in liquid-fueled engines...
...question is whether these neutrons really come from the fusion of deuterium into helium 3. Powerful electrical discharges can give "false neutrons." formed in other and less important ways, but Scientist Cockcroft is "90% certain" that at least some of ZETA's neutrons come from a thermonuclear reaction. Dr. Thonemann of Harwell does not want to commit himself definitely. U.S. scientists are not sure either. Dr. James Tuck, head of the Los Alamos group, wants to learn more before he makes positive statements...