Word: holocaust
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...next year. Pershing's success adds a heavy wallop to the U.S.'s arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. These weapons give the U.S. and its allies, especially in Western Europe, a vital potential for ground war beyond the brush-fire level and less than all-out thermonuclear holocaust. Among the Army's other tactical nuclear weapons...
Preparing himself to be a leader in the American advance, Francis Moore went straight into a nine-year progression through intern, resident, and assistant in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. There, in 1942, he was one of the surgeons who treated survivors of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. That holocaust, in which 500 died, emphasized surgery's need to know far more about a burn victim than the state of his skin grafts-to know what is happening to his emotions and to a dozen of his body chemicals...
...four-month trial of Adolf Eichmann, one dark chapter of the Nazi holocaust was never fully brought out: the rule of Nazi-organized councils of Jewish elders in European ghettos. Backed by their own high-booted Jewish police, the councils compiled death lists of Jews and rounded up their own people for deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Refusal to help Eichmann's "transportation" experts would have meant immediate death, but always there was the agonizing moral dilemma: even under duress, was cooperation not betrayal? Last week Israeli Prosecutor David Libai gave the state's answer in the first...
...shown as a scarlet woman of Sodom who looks back at the destruction of her home town and is turned to-now if that's a pillar of salt the Venus de Milo is Mother Machree. And the big blast in the last reel is a low-cost holocaust, obviously done in miniature, that practically constitutes an insult to Jehovah...
...wish to avoid the nuclear holocaust, the final catastrophe, the ultimate disaster. Nobody wants an Armageddon. The great powers are 'have' nations, with fundamental commitments to the status quo. They both wish to avoid the Nth country problem...