Word: teller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amuzzle we'll send to wherever the Band is; A grandfather clock to time-teller Dave Landes; Of the Indy's Dave Finegold the stockings we'll stuff With a typewriter ribbon in case things get tough. The wags at the 'Poon get a joke book to read Before their next issue; it's just what they need. Their Sackbut-that-was should be sure not to bungle; A Bells on the stage is worth ten in the Jungle...
...vision moved closer to becoming U.S. policy. Reagan and his National Security Council approved in principle a fiveyear, $21 billion plan to begin more rapidly developing an arsenal of space weapons, in particular orbiting "ray guns" that would fire intense beams of energy at enemy missiles. Said Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb and one of the plan's most enthusiastic advocates: "I don't see a sliver of an argument why we shouldn't bend all our will to develop protective weapons with all possible haste." Indeed, he says, "it may well...
...perhaps not in the way Teller imagines. Many other weapons scientists, arms-control experts and Congressmen in both parties see a historic opportunity slipping away: the chance to avoid an arms race in space. Opponents of the space-based defensive system argue that its extraordinarily high cost would be the least of its disadvantages. They insist that the technical obstacles are practically insurmountable and that building such weapons could encourage a panicky, preemptive nuclear attack by the Soviets...
...initially provided "a certain psychological deterrent," but ultimately proved useless. Once a robbery is under way, says Roberto Salgado, director of the Brazilian Association of Guard and Security Companies, "most banks instruct the guards not to shoot where there's a chance of losing a customer or a teller." Perhaps as a result, guards often find themselves forced at gunpoint to turn over their arms to the robbers, who have harvested hundreds of weapons so far this year...
...Communism and Fascism. I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe (allowing of course for the fact that the book is a satire) that something resembling it could arrive." Few listened, trusting the title and the tale, not the teller...