Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recession coincided with a national yearning by the Israelis to settle down and enjoy some of the fruits of their labors. They wanted cars, television sets and automatic washers. For several years, they had been moving out of the spartan kibbutzim and into the cities; now, from down on the farms came a collective female chorus demanding that beauty salons, staffed by trained beauticians, become a permanent part of kibbutzim equipment. Some kibbutzim posted signs to advise passing tourists that their restaurants honored Diners' Club credit cards. As was bound to happen, some of the bloom was beginning to fade...
...Land. Thus equipped, the new breed of pioneers can gather around the old late show on TV, sleep beneath their toasty-warm electric blankets, and wake up to shave with plug-in razors while the coffee makers perk merrily away. If the old object of camping as a spartan way of getting back to nature has thereby been lost, it is beside the point...
...warheads, believed to be in the one-megaton range, is in the form of high-energy X rays. To extend the lethal range of these rays, which are quickly absorbed or attenuated when traveling through air, the ABM warhead will be carried high above the atmosphere by the new Spartan missile and exploded in space in the vicinity of incoming ICBMs...
Because ABM-produced X rays and neutrons could sweep such large segments of the skies clear of threatening ICBMs, defense planners believe a relatively small number of Spartan missile batteries-costing a total of $4 billion-could defend the entire continental U.S. against the kind of primitive missile attack that China may well be able to launch by the mid-1970s. They could also provide protection against a few Soviet ICBMs that might be launched accidentally...
...even the installation of many Spartan batteries-backed up by smaller and faster Sprint missiles for short-range interception of ICBMs that penetrate the X-ray curtain-would not provide sufficient protection against a determined and massive attack by the Soviet Union. Using shielding, decoys, multiple and maneuverable warheads and radar-jamming chaff or nuclear explosions, the Russians could confuse and overwhelm U.S. defenses-just as the U.S. could overcome theirs...