Word: powers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hugh Foster will play his power game in the number one spot. Hugh Nawn plays a tricky game at number two. Jim Bacon and Bill Flagg, at positions three and four, add drive and bard-hitting power to the team...
Internationalizing Jerusalem will probably require fire power as well as will power. The Israeli government is moving its offices to the city, determined never to surrender, and the Arabs have announced they will repulse any attempt to take away their section...
Such a situation is neither new or unexpected. When the nations gave the power of preserving peace to the UN in 1945, they must have known that any successful international organization would need armed force. You can't achieve peace by talk, even if it be broadcast over radio and TV. Granted, the UN's decision may have been premature though correct. If nations are sincere about international government, they must now give the UN what rightfully belongs to it: guns to back its decisions. When you permit a four-year-old to play with fire, it is only fair...
...superstitions (he insists on being last to leave the dining room when his men are eating, last to leave the clubhouse, last out of the bus), lies a vast store of football know-how. He knew the kind of T-football he wanted: a combination of great power and flawless execution. In nine seasons with the Eagles, that is the kind he has developed-the prettiest and most deadly T-formation in the business...
...full, round figure alerted Washington's amateur physicists. According to fairly dependable estimates, the Hiroshima bomb developed not more than 10% of the fission energy present in its nuclear explosive. Perfect efficiency (probably impossible) would therefore give about ten times as much power, certainly not 1,000 times as much. So, figured the amateur physicists, the talkative Senator must have meant a bomb made out of hydrogen. It is well known that the conversion of hydrogen into helium is the nuclear reaction that gives the sun its energy...