Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy had also underestimated the sub's firepower. Its short-range (about 700 nautical miles) SSN5 missiles carried hydrogen-bomb warheads packing a much bigger punch than the uranium-fission weapons that were once the staple of Soviet defense. Very possibly one of the warheads was exploded underground before a U.S.-Soviet ban on such testing of bombs of more than 150 kilotons went into effect this year...
...found a new patron in Nikita Khrushchev, who was desperately eager to overtake American agriculture. But Lysenko's star was already dimming. From the West came word of spectacular new advances in genetics. Lysenko's reputation was also undermined by Soviet geneticist Zhores Medvedev's samizdat (underground book) The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, which documented Lysenko's falsification of data and character assassination. Finally, when Khrushchev fell -in part because of his disastrous farm policies-so did Lysenko. The onetime czar of Soviet agriculture spent his declining years at a research station near Moscow...
...idea of writing a composition fit for high school purposes and this was the result," Darius Milhaud said of his Suite Francaise (1945), his first extended work for winds. Milhaud's suite is written in five parts, named after French provinces in which the Allies and the French underground fought together against "the German invaders, who in less than seventy years have brought war, destruction, cruelty, torture and murder," as Milhaud wrote...
...point economic program initiated under emergency rule. Moreover, if she were to allow even the semblance of a free campaign, she would have to relinquish those special powers. In fact, the wholesale price index is up 10% in the past six months. Diehard opponents of her regime have gone underground. More ominously, there has been increasingly violent resistance to the government's aggressive family-planning program, which has caused rioting, resulting in some deaths in several northern cities and towns. Birth control has become such an inflammatory issue in some heavily Moslem sectors that a secret intelligence report reputedly...
...seems to have been derailed. Broadcasts from Hanoi and Vientiane have been sharply hostile to Tanin's government. Still, former Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj dismisses the possibility that Thai opposition groups-even aided by the Vietnamese-can wage real guerrilla war. Instead, he predicts, those who have gone underground or into exile "will be back on bended knees to ask forgiveness so they can go back to the baths, massage parlors and nightclubs. The jungle is not for them...