Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Assembly, to assure the U.N. that U.S. troops were available and ready to stop any Russian incursion. Meanwhile, the U.S. had reassured the jittery French and British through NATO's retiring General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (see below), that any Soviet move to rocket-bomb London and Paris would be met by atomic retaliation...
...height of the Suez crisis, Russia's Premier Bulganin had threatened to rocket-bomb London and Paris (TIME, Nov. 12), but now the U.S. was plainly warning him not to. Said Gruenther: "If those rockets, however, should be used, bear this in mind: they will not destroy our capacity to retaliate, and just as sure as day follows night, that retaliation would take place. And as of now the Soviet Union would be destroyed." Gruenther pointed once more to the Soviet Union. "It is certainly a factor that people here must take into consideration before they would press...
...process, conservatism has undergone as dramatic a transformation as the evolution of the 175-m.p.h. biplane into the 2,000-m.p.h. rocket aircraft. Through the Committee for Economic Development, the National Planning Association and scores of other groups, businessmen and educators are boldly charting economic and social policies that project conservatism's new look. Increasingly, its prophets are finding the word '"conservatism" inadequate to describe the aims and achievements of present-day capitalism. Eager sponsors have proffered a dozen new labels: capitalism with a conscience, enlightened conservatism, people's capitalism, etc. But still the most widely accepted...
...chief fear was not the war of "rocket weapons" and other "modern and terrible means" that Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin threatened against Great Britain and France (TIME, Nov. 12). This was taken to be crude and nasty propaganda. The fear was of a limited war in the Middle East, of the kind Soviet Russia likes: perhaps without any Russian soldiers, but instigated and supplied by the Russians...
...radios. The primary purpose of the flight was not to make an altitude record but to study conditions on the fringe of space and human reactions to them. The Navy intended to keep its "Strato-lab" (the gondola) at peak altitude for about three hours, a period impossible for rockets or rocket planes...