Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They now believe the Russians are studying East German launching sites for their new intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which could strike from East Germany at the West European capitals, the main NATO defense bases and targets throughout the British Isles...
...pistol is the thermonuclear strike force of the manned bombers and fighter-bombers of the U.S. Air Force, backed up by the Navy's far-ranging carrier planes and submarines. Operating out of 270-odd air bases in a score of countries, this thermonuclear strike force is poised all day, every day, to deliver a 360° assault (see map) against the 37,500-mile borders of the Soviet Union, each single aircraft capable of unloading on target the mighty equivalent of all the bombs dropped by all nations during World War II. Unlike the Kremlin's-headline...
...Long Rifles. Tommy White's quiet but firm drive for perfection, his professional sense of urgency, are reflected at every level of the Air Force's 25,000-plane command-including 14,000 jets, 12,500 of them strike planes-to the point that his 900,000-man force lives all day, every day, by the doctrine of instant readiness. At Strategic Air Command bases from Okinawa to Limestone, Me. to Morocco, one-third of SAC's force of about 1,500 nuclear 6-47 medium jet bombers. 200 6-52 heavy jet bombers ("the long rifles...
...vote was taken as civil servants, perhaps a million strong, went on strike and shouted in the streets for higher wages. A desire to restore damaged French prestige abroad and fear of opening a new political crisis at home forced the deputies to go along with Gaillard's unpopular special powers bill...
Bolivia's President Siles once went on a hunger strike to fend off pressures to break his austerity pledge. Said he: "I will never sign a decree assisting inflation." Instead, he forced through a law prohibiting issuance of new currency by the Central Bank. Today, Bolivia seems on the way to sound money...