Word: secret
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have another prime reason: after ten years of secret planning, the U.S. is on the verge of developing a true "clean bomb," with enormous implications for both brush-fire war and big-war tactics. It is the neutron bomb, triggered by a fission process, topped off by a small hydrogen (fusion) explosion, designed to bombard enemy troops in a specific area with millions of fatal, invisible neutron "bullets." The neutron bomb does not damage property, scatters virtually no radioactive fallout, cannot be detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although...
...think there can be only one solution to the steel strike. Those who should decide the outcome of the strike are the 500,000 striking steelworkers. A secret ballot of all the involved workers as to whether they want to continue or settle the strike might produce the most surprising results...
Inside Room 832 of Washington's Shoreham Building the carpet had not yet been laid and workmen were still installing telephones. But even in the chaos of moving day, Room 832 was as busy as an anthill. Its mission was supposed to be a secret, but nearly everybody in Washington knew that staffers of the new Nixon Club were beaver-busy organizing a presidential campaign under the benign and smoothly efficient direction of the most successful Republican political cam paign manager in U.S. history-Leonard Hall of Oyster...
...Bonn, there were other complaints. Foreign Office hands complained that 83-year-old Chancellor Adenauer had taken to shaping foreign policy in secret. Others resented Adenauer's insistence that the alliance with France must be the cornerstone of West Germany's international relations. Many German businessmen and politicians no longer made any bones about their belief that De Gaulle was extracting from Bonn greater political and economic concessions than his friendship was worth-and were convinced that De Gaulle was really not interested in seeing Germany become a great power...
Football games at New Haven are hearty experiences. Yale is an educational Xanadu: the Harkness bells play the 1812 Overture; heelers for the Yale Daily News (once, the oldest college daily) roll a gigantic soccer ball around the Old Campus; Mellons sprinkle millions into the University coffers; secret societies practice strange rites...