Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fulfilled was the Air Force's prayerful hope: Thor, at long last, had been successfully fired. A special top-level Defense Department committee, set up to settle the rivalry between Thor and its Army counterpart, Jupiter, was pondering whether to scrap one of the two intermediate-range (1,500-mile) ground-to-ground ballistic missiles or combine them in a hybrid with the best features of both. The Army made much of the fact that the less complex Jupiter had performed well in tests, while Thor, in its three tests, had twice flopped dismally, skipped off course the third...
...Does it perhaps calculate that under these conditions governments subject to moral and religious influences will not be apt to use them? And would the Soviet government, which is itself not subject to moral and religious restraints, thereby gain a special freedom of action and initiative as regards such weapons? And does the Soviet Union not want nuclear weapons to be refined into effective defensive weapons which could repel an aggressive attack by those who control the most manpower...
...Basutos and the Zulus of Johannesburg. Two Zulus were beaten to death and a Basuto leader was caught, castrated and clubbed to death. The proprietor of a lunchroom shut down his jukebox, on the theory that too many tunes like White Horse Boogie and Bennie's Second Street Special would overexcite his Zulu clients. The precaution did little good. On the following Saturday a swarming mass of Zulus marched against the Basutos, armed with clubs and spears...
...glow of seeing the nation's two great revolutionary heroes working together again, the rebellious young army colonels who had bloodlessly seized control of much of Sumatra, Borneo and East Indonesia pledged themselves to obey "unconditionally" the orders of a seven-man special commission headed by Sukarno and Hatta...
...practice democracy instead of demanding it, Nkrumah seemed a little less in favor of it. Faced with opposition to his rule from back-country Ashanti tribesmen, Nkrumah tried to deport two of their leaders even though they were Ghana citizens. Challenged in court for such behavior, he rushed a special law through Parliament (where he controls 71 of 104 seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother...