Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...momentum" of the nuclear-arms race, as former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara once described it, lost a bit of velocity last week-after a vertiginous go-around between the world's two superpowers. First, the U.S. Senate voted to begin work on the nation's projected Sentinel anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system, designed to provide a "thin" defense screen against enemy rockets. Barely 72 hours later, the Soviet Union called for talks on slowing down the debilitating pace of the missile race...
...system around Moscow and Leningrad two years ago, it was inevitable that the U.S. would follow suit. Washington did so, however, in a roundabout manner. Last September, after years of opposition to an ABM network, McNamara reversed field and announced that the U.S. intended to begin building Sentinel -to defend the country against the Chinese, not the Russians...
...Sentinel's system of radar tracking stations, long-range Spartan missiles and short-range Sprint rockets could indeed be of some avail against Chinese intercontinental missiles, although Peking has fallen a year behind schedule and is not expected to pose any threat until the mid-1970s . Against the real and present peril of 780 land-based Soviet missiles already pointed at U.S. targets, however, Sentinel will afford virtually no protection. Even a "thick" ABM shield, costing $40 billion instead of the projected $5.5 billion for the thin screen, would be hopelessly porous. Missile experts are quicker to devise...
Officials of both regular party organizations, who hate the unpredictable open primary, have strongly urged party members to cross-over. The conservative Milwaukee Sentinel did the same thing in an editorial today...
...earth rolled again, at first gently, then with a sickening sway. Before their eyes, Salaparuta crumbled apart like a child's sand castle. Within 30 seconds, the nine-century-old vineyard town was little more than dust. Left standing over the moonlit rubble was a solitary sentinel, a church tower, whose bell was jolted by the earth's angry vibrations into a final eerie death knell...