Word: tration
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enraged by a quarrel-with his fellow inmates, a Russian prisoner burst from his barracks room in the Nazi concen tration camp at Sachsenhausen, 30 miles northwest of Berlin. It was the evening of April 14, 1943. Picking his way carefully between the maze of trip wires, the prisoner reached the camp fence, then turned around and defiantly called to a nearby SS guard: "Don't be a coward. Shoot, shoot." When the prisoner made a grab for the fence, the guard fired one bullet. It instantly killed the elder son of Joseph Stalin...
...humiliation and bafflement Americans felt four years ago, when their first feeble efforts to match Sputnik I were fizzling. There were no demands for anybody's head, there were few doubts that what ever had gone wrong one week would be fixed another week-soon. The Adminis tration had asked Congress to raise space spending $5.5 billion-nearly double the money spent last year-and Congressmen were confident the country wanted it done. America was deep in the space race, and everybody knew...
...Prefer to Crawl." In a second, long, made-in-Moscow statement, they attacked the "Eisenhower-Nixon Adminis tration," accused the U.S. of spying on its allies and deliberately violating the airspace of other nations. They spilled all they apparently knew about the code-cracking and cryptographic activities of the National Security Agency. They highlighted the whole performance by quoting Arizona's Red-hating Senator Barry Goldwater's warning that "there are among us those who would prefer to crawl to Moscow on their bellies rather than face the possibility of an atomic war." Said Mitchell-Martin...