Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radar, the C-band radar scanned both a storm and the weather on the other side, enabled the pilot to spot and follow the path of least turbulence through the storm, or to detour conveniently if his route was clearly blocked. One important safety feature: the pilot, watching his scope, could see not only storms but the mountains-if any-that lay in wait inside them...
...bomb went off." As a result of this and other actions by Oppenheimer, General Wilson testified: "I felt compelled to go to the Director of Intelligence to express my concern over what I felt was a pattern of action that was simply not helpful to national defense." A Unique Scope. The testimony ranged all the way to those who bluntly questioned his loyalty. David Tressel Griggs, professor of geophysics at the University of California at Los Angeles, new weapons consultant for the Air Force during World War II, told the board: "I want...
...Because the scope of his access may well be unique, because he has had custody of an immense collection of classified papers covering military intelligence and diplomatic as well as atomic-energy matters, and because he also possesses a scientific background enabling him to grasp the significance of classified data of a technical nature, it seems reasonable to estimate that he is, and for some years has been, in a position to compromise more vital and detailed information affecting the national defense and security than any other individual in the United States ... As chairman or as an official and unofficial...
...save the North had been abandoned. It was too late. At the Pentagon the discussion had turned to another kind of effort: how to evacuate the 300,000 non-Communist residents and troops in the area. This would require some 130 ships, would rival Dunkirk in its drama and scope...
Because the Republicans had been waiting so long, the awakening was ruder than it otherwise might have been. The panorama of plenty turned out to be a mirage. Gradually, over the years, the relative scope of political patronage had been dwindling-a vast change in the shape of U.S. politics, which had been obscured during the Roosevelt-Truman period when the expansion of total federal jobs was so great that the patronage seekers were satisfied, even though they got a smaller share of the whole...