Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army supplied only a plain blanket for the presidential lap (instead of the electric blanket furnished by the Navy last year), and the electric foot warmer did not work. But Harry Truman cheerfully hammed a few appropriate poses for photographers, oohed and aahed like any common citizen at the power of Army's football team (see SPORT). "I enjoyed it but it was a little one-sided," commented old artilleryman Truman before he left for home...
Decline ... But by 1900, the party was forced to choices. "Would it champion the cause of small business or would it go where the power and money were, with Big Business?" The party chose Big Business. When sharp division arose between employer and employee, says Webb, the party chose the employer...
Within three years, the Atomic Energy Commission expects to be running one of the Navy's fast new submarines on an atomic power plant. Before summer, a task force will test late-model atomic bombs at the atoll of Eniwetok, the AEC's proving ground. Scientists have been quoting 1955 as the target time for cheap atomic-generated electric power. Three years of AEC work are nearing the payoff...
Another of Lilienthal's problems was deciding what portion of AEC's resources should go to non-military use. An original estimate of a six-to-eight year head start in atomic bomb production allowed the AEC to go ahead with power-plant and medical research projects; intelligence reports and scientific evidence filtering out of Russia last summer indicated that the estimate was wrong. President Truman's September announcement that Russia had produced an atomic explosion fathered continuing military demands that the AEC concentrate almost entirely on making bombs and improving them. Other questions which Lilienthal worked over while...
...participating nations to make their sections conform more completely with these aims. It asked, for example, that nations "refrain from using force contrary to the charter," that they cooperate in regulating armaments, and settle disputes by peaceful means. It also called for a re-examination of the veto power by the Big Five...