Word: teller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't know what was going on for a while," said Terry C. Sullivan, head teller at Cambridge Trust. She said fire officials did not tell employees and customers that there was a bomb scare, although they were told to evacuate quickly...
...that the threat of a nuclear war with Moscow is fading, atomic-weapons designers have been casting around for a mission. Some of them -- including physicist Edward Teller, the father of the H-bomb -- have proposed using a Super Nuke to destroy a huge asteroid that could extinguish human life if it crashed into Earth...
...call a truce. "Bill," he said, "now that we are face to face, why don't we agree that all the TV we do from here on in ((will be about)) what we stand for?" Clinton declined, accusing Tsongas of posing in his ads as the "only truth teller" among the candidates...
This charge was always nonsense, but cold warriors never imagined they would ever have the chance to prove it. Now they do. The coldest of cold warriors are among those advocating the most radical and generous embrace of the erstwhile enemy. Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and Dr. Strangelove himself, calls Western assistance for Russia more justified than even the Marshall Plan. Richard Nixon, lifelong anticommunist, pushes massive Western aid and debt relief for Russia. One high Reagan Administration official, Fred Ikle, has gone so far as to propose a "defense community" between America and Russia modeled...
...good old- fashioned hatred of one religious group by another. But when an idea is young (gay lib began in 1969, after police harassment sparked a riot in New York's Greenwich Village), there's usually tremendous resistance. It's just the way the world works. Even automated-teller machines took a while to catch on. Can you imagine...