Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germany, a country that has found little glory in World War II, one name still carries a hero's laurels: Erwin Rommel, brilliant Desert Fox of North Africa, admired by the Allies, despised by Hitler, who gave him a choice of suicide or execution for his role in the abortive 1944 plot against der Fűhrer (Rommel chose suicide). In West Germany today, streets and military barracks are named for Rommel. Now comes another honor: West Germany's biggest warship, a 4,500-ton guided-missile destroyer will be christened the Erwin Rommel...
Although Russia and the U.S. recognized the role that rockets could eventually play in space exploration, both nations were more immediately concerned about arming themselves with the most devastating military weapon: the nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Because U.S. scientists had already begun to master the art of packing enormous power into small nuclear warheads, the Redstone, Jupiter and Atlas missiles designed to carry them were only of modest size. The Russians, who were behind in nuclear technology, had only more primitive and massive warheads to use; they were forced to build enormous rockets to loft them. But the Soviet...
Consent and Denial. In its confidential role as underwriter for the Douglas Aircraft Corp. during 1966, Merrill Lynch learned that the company's first-half earnings would be down sharply...
During their splurge of self-criticism before the press and TV, the group focused on what had become unintentionally the chief concern of the seminar: the proper role of the intellectual in finding solutions to world problems...
...advisory role for the United States...