Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most sensitive writing: Robbins' "giant shaft of white-hot steel" and "searing sheet of flame" far outclass Hailey's modest "her heart beat faster...
Since tests in the atmosphere were banned by international treaty, the new warhead would have to be tested underground. The choice fell on one of the world's most remote islands-Amchitka, near the end of Alaska's Aleutian chain-where AEC officials dug a shaft more than a mile deep, and proposed to lower the five-megaton Spartan warhead down to the bottom. All it cost was $200 million, and they anticipated no trouble...
...generated an aftershock greater than the explosion itself." Only an aftershock ten to 30 times as great as the original explosion, he said, could cause an earthquake. The minute Schlesinger got the word from Nixon, AEC workers were set to work shoveling sand, gravel and cement into the Amchitka shaft, in the "stemming" operation that is supposed to seal the explosion off from any possibility of blowout...
...police soon found the weapon, a new .243-cal. Remington semi-automatic rifle, in an air shaft at Hunter College, a block from the mission, and traced it to an 18-year-old Brooklyn youth known to be "an activist" in the fanatically anti-Soviet J.D.L...
...linchpin for peace in the Pacific." No wonder that Nixon's decision in July to visit Peking, followed by his drastic economic measures two weeks ago-which affect Japan more than any other nation (see BUSINESS)-seemed to the Japanese less like linchpin diplomacy than a thoughtlessly thrown shaft. Both moves hit vital Japanese interests, and both were made without consultation between Washington and Tokyo. Decorously silent in public, Japanese officials sputtered volumes in private about "those gorotsuki [hoodlums] in Washington...