Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of political activity that followed were lessons in the technique of the underground. Police methods under the Tsars were comparatively lenient, he discovered, because the dying regime was old and soft. Often prisons became centers of revolutionary activity. But the "super beated Turkish bath" that followed 1917 was another matter. Sorokin had enjoyed a few months respite under the Kerensky government as secretary to the Prime Minister and editor of the party newspaper. When the Bolsheviks stormed the Petrogard Garrison, however, it meant that the other socialist parties would be again outlawed and persecuted...
...world of 1954 is di-polar, with two opposing super states. Smaller powers can no longer afford to stand alone, for they are comparatively defenseless. Nor can they contribute to a balance of power or serve as a "third force." Instead, they must seek safety in numbers. The results of this drive for security are regional organizations such as NATO and the Organization of American States. But no such arrangement exists in Asia...
Oppenheimer's first really severe setback as the Statesman of the Atom came in the fight over whether to make the H-bomb. Here is how Oppenheimer tells the story in his letter to the AEC: "No serious controversy arose about the Super [the H-bomb] until the Soviet explosion of the atomic bomb in the autumn of 1949. Shortly after that event, in October 1949, the Atomic Energy Commission called a special session of the General Advisory Committee and asked us to consider and advise on two related questions: "First, whether in view of the Soviet success...
TRANS WORLD Airlines, biggest civilian customer of Lockheed aircraft (81 Constellations in service, 20 on order), has reminded Lockheed that Douglas DC-7s (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952) are "appreciably faster" than Super Constellations. T.W.A. President Ralph Damon told Lockheed brass: "Lockheed should find a way to do something about this problem...
...after the crippling blows of the war, Britain no longer had the strength to act as a balancer, and in the present state of world politics, with two super states facing each other across a shrinking globe, there is little hope for those who would restore the old system. Many in England have recognized this change, yet until now it has not been reflected in British foreign policy. For although the English have vocally backed recent moves towards a federal Europe, they have paradoxically refused to enter or even actively support such European efforts as the Schuman Plan...