Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...megaton is an explosive energy of 1,800 ooo tons of TNT...
...full force of detonation, estimated to be that of a million tons of TNT. was considerably muffled in the terse announcement by the Ministry of Supply, which said little more than that "the first explosion of a nuclear device in the present series took place yesterday in the Central Pacific at a high altitude." But there was still a shock wave of protest in its wake...
...TNT-The Power Within You, by Claude Bristol and Harold Sherman (Prentice-Hall; 85,000 copies), is about as noisy as the mental dynamite it promises to detonate-that something which will "release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake...
...TNT & Sympathy. With time out for the Spanish-American War (he was a corporal), a 1912 trip to Europe and a five-year fling at retirement that ended in 1937, Rudy Dirks has been chronicling the Kids ever since. The great Katzenjammer feud broke out in 1913, when the Journal sued to prevent Artist Dirks from going over to Pulitzer's World. After a Kidless year in court, the Journal won all rights to the Katzenjammer Kids title and hired the late Harold (Dinglehoofer und His Dog) Knerr to draw the strip. Dirks took the Katzies, as he calls...
...than 100 newspapers.v. The Katzenjammers' 300 (including Hearst's New York Sunday Journal-American). Dirks Sr. and Jr. argue, nevertheless, that the original Kids, as portrayed in The Captain, are the more "sympathetic" of the two. Explains John: "When the Kids set off 8,000 tons of TNT under Der Captain, they only want to singe him a little. When they're punished in an adult, unknowing way, they reciprocate. But most of the provocation comes from adults." In an age that regards delinquents as more sinned against than sinning, Dirks's mixed-up Kids have...