Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explained in the musty committee chambers of Lancaster House, was this line of reasoning: 1) no nation that keenly feels itself in danger of attack is likely to reduce its arms; 2) with modern weapons of war, foreshortening time and space, the element of surprise has far greater weight than ever before in military calculation, and a big part of the fear of attack is the fear of surprise; therefore, 3) the best hope for peace and for reducing the burden of armaments lies in eliminating or diminishing the danger of surprise attack...
...nothing." As a man who stoutly backed the ill-fated Egyptian adventure of his successor Sir Anthony Eden, Churchill to this day (like many Britons) deplores the part the U.N. played in halting the war short of victory, and he has always thought it unrealistic to give as much weight to the opinions of a small power as to a large. Said Churchill: "The shape of the U.N. has changed greatly from its original form and from the intention of its architects. The differences between the great powers have thrown responsibility increasingly on the Assembly. This has been vastly swollen...
...Said Harry Truman to reporters after death of Franklin Roosevelt, "I don't know if any of you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on him. But last night the whole weight of the moon and the stars fell...
...expenses. Without going into debt or accepting government handouts, Snia Viscosa was producing 55,000 tons of fiber annually by 1947 (present production: 135,000 tons annually). But with productive capacity vastly greater than Italy's consumer market, Snia Viscosa had to export or topple of its own weight...
Born. To Gina Lollobrigida, 29, Italian cinemactress (Beat the Devil, Woman of Rome), and Drago Milan (Mirko) Skofic, 37, Yugoslav-born physician: a son, their first child; in Rome. Name: Mirko. Weight...