Word: scrap
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Immediately after World War II, the United States responded to world opinion with an offer to scrap its atom bombs, if the U.N. would maintain security by setting up an agency to direct all nuclear research and to confine it to peaceful purposes. It was a gesture of naive enthusiasm; state department and military officials doubted its feasibility, and had little interest in it except as a possibly useful piece of propaganda. The plan never had a chance; distrustful Russian military leaders certainly would not allow the U.S. to retain possession of the secrets of A-bomb production while stifling...
...goods at a fraction (5-7%) of cost. There is plenty to go around-and not just leftovers from the last war. The Government alone last year unloaded $2.1 billion worth of "usable property." Under a house-cleaning policy recommended in 1955 by the Hoover Commission, it plans to scrap even more in the years to come. The supply seems inexhaustible; the military services often buy too much or find a product obsolete, or simply clean house of products that deteriorate in storage. By combining patience, fortitude and ingenuity, the 15 major dealers turn the Army's loss into...
...public. Defeated that fall by politically unknown John Marshall Butler, who was actively backed by McCarthy in a gutter campaign featuring a phony composite photograph showing Tydings in apparently friendly conversation with Communist Earl Browder, Tydings won nomination to the Senate in 1956 but withdrew from his last political scrap because of ill health...
Neither the Thompson boys nor their father John, 33, were particularly concerned with the scrap over school integration. Alabama-reared John Thompson had moved his family of seven into the McDonogh 19 school district after the boycott began, joined his neighbors in sending his boys on the long bus ride to the lily-white schools of St. Bernard Parish. Then Thompson noticed that Greg was reading from the same primer he had used the year before in Alabama, where "the schools ain't too far ahead." And one rainy day the school bus driver bawled the boys...
...fishermen in a traditional Communist ploy: in exchange for concessions from the Japanese, they were offering to stop doing what they should not have been doing in the first place. In Tokyo, Aleksandr Ishkov, Soviet minister of fisheries, named the Russians' price for halting its harassment -that Japan scrap its security treaty with the U.S. This was a follow-up to a gambit offered by Nikita Khrushchev, who last month told a group of Japanese visiting in Moscow that he would be willing to hand back Habomai and Shikotan (which the Russians grabbed at war's end), except...