Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking for himself, Lewis Strauss left behind his own assessment of his job to guide his successor: "The atom is amoral. The only thing that makes it immoral is man. We are making bombs because we hope to discourage the use of bombs against us by a government that doesn't make any pretense of morals...
...based overseas, advanced land-based bombers and carrier-based aircraft. A weapons-systems evaluation group is studying the problem, is scheduled to make recommendations to the Joint Chiefs of Staff by next month. «I Can the U.S. still afford to be tied to a procedure that prohibits the use of defensive atomic weapons without a presidential order? As the warmaking prowess of the enemy advances and consequently shortens the reaction time needed for the-U.S. to defend and retaliate, continental-defense commanders believe they should be authorized to use any superweapon in the U.S. arsenal at an instant...
...their duty to prevent any unlawful attempt to interfere with British fishing vessels on the high seas." (An international conference last April failed to agree on a three, six-or twelve-mile limit, leaving it up to what each nation can enforce.) Although Iceland had not yet talked of using gunboats itself, "Her Majesty's government," continued the note, "finds it difficult to believe that the Icelandic government would use force against British fishing vessels in order to secure compliance" with a decree both "unilateral" and "against international...
...walls, was repeatedly raided by the police. Strongman Salazar began to sound a bit tired of Delgado's campaign and assured his followers that "the calmness essential to collective life will now have to be restored. We will do so in all circumstances and through the use of all means at the disposal of the authorities...
...austerity, the number of deaths from cirrhosis of the liver quadrupled from 1947 to 1950, tripled again by 1956. The peak total that year: 20,279 deaths from alcoholism, 14-176 of them from cirrhosis. Cause of the trouble is not hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis, and may not lead to it at all if the rest of the diet is properly balanced. But the cause-and-effect relationship in France is so clear and so common that...