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Dates: during 1950-1959
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syrup of human kindness. Sweeter and stickier than the milk. See THEATER, The Sound of Music...
waffle. Doubletalk, or sometimes bafflegab. See FOREIGN NEWS, Without Waffle...
wart hog principle. One wart hog probably looks just dandy to another. See BOOKS, Clothes Make Mankind...
Whooping Congress man. A migratory species of Washington rara avis best known for raucous cries and laying eggs in exotic places. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Scrutable Occidental...
...1960s, must have smaller, higher-yield thermonuclear warheads to fit their smaller nose cones. The Navy's Polaris engineers managed to test their bird's initial warhead just before the moratorium, but could not test its higher-yield follow-up warhead; the Air Force's Minuteman (see SCIENCE) and the Army's Pershing are being developed at a cost of millions to fit warheads that have not been tested, and, under the moratorium, may not be. All these tests could be made underground without fallout. "Without further tests the development of our next generation of weapons...