Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diana got out her father's old rifle, bought a box of .22 short shells at the Seven-Eleven Store around the corner, methodically test-fired it into her mattress. Then she went to her father's den, turned on the big console television and waited, cool enough, while she thought over her plans to dispatch other members of the family as, each on tedious schedule, they came home from school or work. ABC's American Bandstand, the 4 p.m. teen-age dance show, had been on a couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired...
HARVARD University's tough- minded political scientist and military theorist (Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy), Henry A. Kissinger, raises that question in the current issue of Foreign Affairs as he goes on to raise another: Even though Russian and Western scientists agree that detection of nuclear-test violations is possible, has the U.S. really thought through the implications of the nuclear-test ban that it proposes to offer to Russia at a conference this month...
Kissinger concedes that, despite the perils of a nuclear-test ban, the U.S. has to bow to the Communist-cultivated worldwide fear of fallout. But instead of a ban on tests, he proposes a restriction on fallout. The West and the Soviet bloc could agree to equal fallout quotas. These quotas could gradually shrink to zero within a specified time, say two years. After that, until a general disarmament program came into effect, nations would be free to go on conducting tests, e.g., underground or in outer space, as long as there was no detectable fallout. Such an agreement-unlike...
...comes up Monday noon, the Seawolf will have been below the Atlantic Ocean's surface for exactly 60 days. The submarine sailed on Aug. 5, went down two days later to begin what the Navy then described only as a "routine environmental test...
...majored in history and after graduation decided a year or two at Exeter would best test his desires to teach. "I strongly recommend this idea of a year or two teaching at a prep school before going to a college or university. For one thing it's economical: I saved enough in two years to finance my first year at grad school and buy a car, too. And best of all, you discover more of the true joy of teaching than you will at any college...