Word: spartanism
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...decision was made by Richard Nixon himself, and it was a decision he did not expect to have to make. The whole thing seemed simple enough when it was proposed. The nation needed an anti-ballistic missile system, and its prime ingredient was the Spartan warhead, which is designed to destroy or neutralize incoming enemy warheads...
...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...
...spartan: "I saw no movies or plays, had scarcely any dates, and read nothing but psychology and physiology. The second year I bought a piano; but there was discipline even so: I played Bach fugues or nothing...
...miles from the course in 1966. "Lee used to jog to work to keep his legs in shape," recalls Don Whittington, then a co-owner of Horizon City. "Even in those days, he had very definite ambitions to become a great golfer." Trevino played the gusty desert course with Spartan regularity. When winds of up to 60 m.p.h. kicked up the sand, he donned scuba-diver goggles and kept swinging. Impressed by his determination, Whittington and his partner paid Trevino's plane fare to the 1966 U.S. Open in San Francisco. Playing with an unmatched bag of clubs ("I must...
...ghost of Auschwitz; and, to an unmatched degree, of Nobel Prizewinner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, survivor and permanent victim of Stalin's prison camps. In 1962, during Khrushchev's brief destalinization period, readers were suddenly introduced to One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In a dark, spartan account, it told of the wretches who peopled the slave labor camps of Siberia, cleaved from society for uncommitted political sins, filled with what the author called "the fearlessness of those who have lost everything...