Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical acclaim and a typically French confusion of interpretations. A few saw the story of the Salem witch hunts as an indictment of Joe McCarthy; others interpreted it as a damnation of Communist persecutions. Commented Le Monde's critic: "This ancient history of sorcery, mobile as a weather vane, can as well be directed at the East as at the West...
Gauntlet of Fire. No airman can predict the kill rate if the attack force of 900 Soviet bombers strikes. "There are," said General Chidlaw, "too many intangible factors. Obviously, if the enemy struck in perfect weather and in small numbers, we'd do a most creditable job in cleaning him up ... Bad weather and a tremendous mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range...
...bombs that have been exploded. This is not because the scientists are not interested, says Martin, or because they do not agree with him. He claims that many of them are privately on his side, but cannot support him publicly. He is sure that the world's weather bureaus, for instance, have been told by their governments to keep out of hydrogen discussions. The best he has got so far is a carefully worded joint statement by Henri Longchambon, France's Under Secretary of State for Scientific...
...Weather Bureau Ski Reports...
...Such a force could pack this kind of a great offensive punch. It could include aircrafts able to deliver large weapons under all weather conditions, against enemy bases 1,500 miles or more distant . . . Operating with such carrier forces will be advanced forces of nuclear-powered submarines launching atomic missiles against targets at relatively short ranges . . . These forces would be fully self-sustaining for some 30 days of war operations...