Word: cleanness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Atlas ICBM. With additional nuclear tests, the yield of the Polaris and Minuteman warheads could be significantly increased, although Admiral William Raborn Jr. has said he needs no further tests of the present Polaris warhead. Some U.S. scientists and military men would like further testing to develop "clean" nuclear weapons with little fallout. The U.S. has developed small warheads, with a yield of less than one kiloton,* for use in tactical weapons, but so far these small warheads are "dirty," and the dirtiness makes it difficult for troops to follow behind the bombardment...
...Clean Cut. In Vineland, N. J., a disorderly-conduct charge against Jose Antonio Montes, 26, was dropped after his wife testified that she still loved him in spite of the fact that he had bashed her with a bottle of bleach...
...wo.uld stymie such peaceful nuclear pursuits as atom-powered space probes and massive use of atomic explosives to blast a new Alaskan harbor. It would make more difficult the already difficult job of keeping together skilled teams of scientists in AEC labs. It would stall the development of clean, small, highly mobile tactical weapons...
...police emerged to clean up the carnage, one officer grew sick at the sight and vomited. But the police commander said coolly: "My car was struck by a stone. If they do these things, they must learn their lesson the hard way." The dead -estimates range from 72 to 90-were carted off to makeshift morgues; more than 200 wounded overflowed the native hospital. And so much plasma was needed that African blood gave out, and the wounded got transfusions from reserve white stocks...
...Each reporter spends a five-minute "turn" (in the House) or a ten-minute "folio" (in the Senate) on the floor, then hustles down to the official reporters' office to read his notes into a dictating machine. An unwritten custom for both House and Senate reporters is to clean up little slips of grammar, fact or taste made by the solons. Once a Congressman leaped to his feet in a farm debate, said that the time had come to take the bull by the tail and look the situation squarely in the face. As discreetly as possible, the Record...