Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point, the pamphlet's glossary becomes very useful. It includes such terms as MEGATON, GROUND ZERO, and A-BOMB and H-BOMB (two "popular terms for what should correctly be called nuclear weapons"), all of which can enliven cocktail conversation at survival parties and make their employer appear very erudite. For obvious security reasons, certain other useful words and phrases were omitted. For example: Ja amerikanskij proletarij (I am an American proletarian), Da zdrstvuet krasnoye osvobozhdenye (Long live the red liberation), and tovarishch (comrade...
...cognoscenti may pass this off as absurd. Why should Russia use only five-megaton bombs? And what apartment or office building will be more than 10 miles from ground zero? But the Pentagon has closer ties to the CIA than we do, and if the CIA thinks the Commies are going to attack Westchester County instead of Wall Street, that's the way it's going...
...gave his orders with care. That De Gaulle sharply appreciates the thinness of the balance is obvious in his reluctance to appeal for support in this crisis to any parties of the left. To a visitor at Elysee Palace, De Gaulle said bluntly: "The left without the Communists is zero. The left with the Communists is unacceptable to the army...
After the Normandy invasion, he commanded a brigade under General de Lattre de Tassigny on the Alsace front. Veterans of that winter campaign remember Salan as a competent and "correct" soldier: when touring outposts, Salan would remove his glove even in zero weather before shaking hands with a soldier...
Thermometers plunged toward zero, and so did labor relations at South Bend's Studebaker-Packard plant, strikebound for three weeks. As pickets huddled to keep warm one day last week, a black Mercedes-Benz picked a path toward the main gate. At the wheel was Studebaker's Hollywood-handsome president, Sherwood Harry Egbert, 41. Pickets closed around his sedan, refused to let Egbert through unless he showed a union pass...