Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Many Shots? For those who can get it, the vaccine will probably cost $1 (in bulk military orders it costs only 20? to 40?), plus doctor's fees. One shot should trigger the production of protective antibodies in ten to 14 days. Because single shots of flu vaccines are usually effective in only 70% of cases, the armed forces like to give a second shot. In this case, because of short supply, their second shots will probably have to wait. The six manufacturers aim to produce 60 million...
...sitting with his knees up to his chest, and Ray allowed that from that distance (60 ft.), he could hit Daniels any place he wanted. Marty told him to aim so the shot would hit him in the chest. Carefully Ray Edwards aimed the rifle, squeezed the trigger, and shot Martin Daniels Sr. square in the chest. In the resulting confusion, the boys ran out of the cemetery, jumped into Marty's car and drove to the Edwards apartment in Germantown...
...missile along at 1,500 m.p.h.. give it a range of 250 miles v. 50 miles for Nike Hercules antiaircraft missiles. Once launched from a trailer-like "transporter-erector," an electronic guidance system flies the Bomarc, seeks out the enemy formation until it gets close enough to trigger a high-explosive, or nuclear, warhead. Boeing has been working on an answer to high-flying atomic bombers ever since the first 6-52 designs took shape in the late '40s. The first Bomarc was flown in 1952, has since been perfected in dozens of tests against high-flying drones...
...Revolution's aftermath, finds herself marooned on a Caspian isle with a handsome Czarist officer. Peeling off their wet clothing after their swim to shore, the ill-starred couple falls head-over-Hegel in love. Inevitably, however, when a boat heaves up to rescue the decadent nobleman, the trigger-happy lady sadly perceives her Marxist duty, hauls out her gun and chalks up her beloved as The Forty-First...
...growing dissatisfaction of the Russian people with their "slow progress towards a better life." A second fear of the Russian rulers, he added was that the "stalemate of terror" produced by exclusive U.S. and Soviet possession of atomic weapons had ended, and that a smaller nation might get "trigger-happy...