Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some are simple tributes to a beloved figure, like the one by Barry Spacks: By this to remember, this spring again As we walk by the river, the tidal...
Hawaii (4): A tidal wave for L.B.J...
What was the weapon? Was it what famed U.S. Physicist Ralph Lapp calls a "gigaton" bomb-a nuclear weapon packing the power of a billion tons of TNT that could be detonated 100 miles off the U.S.'s coastline and still set off a 50-ft. tidal wave that would sweep across much of the entire North American continent? Was it a cobalt bomb that would send a deadly cloud sweeping forever about the earth? A "death ray" or a germ bomb? Or even an empty boast? Two days later Nikita Khrushchev said it wasn't nuclear...
...Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Harlem tame by comparison. The pastel-painted shantytowns with their deceptive names-"Pleasure Hill," "Peacock," "Heaven"-breed hoods with monikers like "Tidal Wave," "Uncle Horrible" and "Dried Meat...
...owes something to Admiral Rickover and even more to Jules Verne. It is the story of an enormous nuclear submarine that patrols the ocean floor, combatting the sinister forces, human and natural, that threaten the American way. Last week earthquakes of unprecedented ferocity were about to produce tidal waves that would drown almost anyone in the U.S. who did not happen to be standing on Pikes Peak. To counteract these H-breakers, the sub had to blast them with H-bombs before they got rolling. For one hour, on land and at sea, machine guns chattered, torpedoes schlurped through...