Word: seemly
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...doing now and might do later. Military and intelligence professionals tend to be pessimists, and hence hawks. China's nuclear development has added a new factor of uncertainty. Despite these difficulties, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union recognize the immense stakes involved in arms limitations and seem prepared to go ahead...
More significant than stray tidbits of security data, of course, are the calculations of just what kind of weapons the Russians will actually build, and in what numbers. On this crucial point, the experts seem to disagree...
...chemical-biological weapons as deterrents, that is one of the principal justifications advanced by the military for their developments. It is possible that an enemy might refrain from attacking out of fear that the U.S. would respond with its own CBW, even though the U.S. nuclear deterrent would seem to be a more effective persuader. Chemical and biological weapons offer an additional combat option-something to occupy the considerable middle ground between conventional weapons and nuclear warheads. Such an option may or may not be an advantage. Defenders of the program contend that certain forms of CBW could make combat...
...drawings by Leonardo da Vinci known to survive in the world, some 600 have resided for centuries in the royal collection of Britain's monarchs. How they came to be there is not certain. Most of them seem to have been brought to England by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, known as "the father of English art collectors," who found them in Spain some time after 1637. The royal family acquired them some time before 1690. But apparently neither King William III nor Queen Mary was much impressed by their quality. A hundred years later, an official at Windsor...
Considering the sad record of the past, the idea of a good German ballet troupe might seem as implausible as a Nepalese surfing club. Times have definitely changed. Not long after the curtain lifted at the American debut of the Stuttgart Ballet last week, the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House was cheering in disbelief at the light-as-air elegance of a pack of young gazelles from the edge of the Black Forest...