Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Squeals. As he went on, some of the throng of newsmen booed him. Khrushchev shouted: "I have already been informed that Chancellor Adenauer sent here some of those bastards we didn't finish off at Stalingrad ! We hit them so hard we put them ten feet underground, right off! If you boo us and attack us again, look out! We will hit you so hard there won't be a squeal out of you." Someone cried: "Is this a press conference or a propaganda meeting?" With a triumphant wave of his fist, Khrushchev shouted back: "Propaganda!" Then...
...Chislehurst caves, which have recently been closed to the public. Near Chislehurst, the government has been building a research establishment, but, though the work has been going on for ten years, the building is only one story high. The obvious questions are: How deep does the work go underground, and what is being done inside it? Novelist Hyams went on BBC-TV to ask "why the government cannot say, 'This is being caused by a defense apparatus or a secret weapon. For your own safety, will you please put up with it?'" Instead, he complained, "There have been...
...decision was a logical outgrowth of the East-West negotiations on banning nuclear tests. With U.S. experts disagreeing among themselves about detection of underground nuclear tests, the U.S. had repeatedly made clear that 1) it could not enter into an agreement to ban underground tests without further research on methods of detection, and 2) this research, to be reliable, would have to include actual nuclear explosions, not just conventional explosions...
...Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty read to newsmen an announcement that, against the background of rumblings in Moscow, sounded deliberately provocative. President Eisenhower, said the announcement, had approved a massive boost, from $10 million to $66 million, in funds for Project Vela, a program of research on detection of underground nuclear tests-and Vela would include, "where necessary, nuclear explosions." Largely because of the awkward timing, the word buzzed far and wide that the President, in reaction to the shooting down of the U-2 and Nikita Khrushchev's tough talk, had decided to resume nuclear tests-suspended...
...British-Russian test-ban conference in Geneva early last week, Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin, on instructions from Moscow, unexpectedly dropped his longtime insistence that any East-West program of research on underground test detection would have to be carried out solely with conventional explosives, agreed to include a "strictly limited number" of nuclear explosions. Viewed in the light of Tsarapkin's concession and the previous history of the test-ban negotiations, Project Vela seemed entirely peaceable...