Word: triggered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes and trigger-itchy cops in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Walking alone between the combatants, he roared: "My name is John Doar, D-O-A-R! I'm from the Justice Department, and anybody around here knows I stand for what is right." The mob slowly cooled, the cops relaxed and tragedy...
...nominate the Chairman of the Communist Party in the People's Republic of China, Mao Tse-tung. This insidious and inscrutable leader of one-fourth of the world's population now holds his finger on the trigger of China's newly developed atomic device. He most certainly altered the course of history...
...opposed to "mixed manning"; he only objects to "any proposals which recommend dropping the fundamental American veto" over the firing of nuclear weapons. Wilson's insistence on such a U.S. veto was meant to calm British fears that West Germany might get its finger on the nuclear trigger through MLF. Johnson assured him that the U.S. will retain its veto in any event...
...multilateral force of 25 surface ships armed with Polaris missiles and manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. Where the French nuclear force currently swings a total punch of three megatons, the MLF would carry 200. Though the U.S. would retain ultimate control of the MLF's nuclear trigger, participating nations would have more pull on it than under the French scheme. The French last week reiterated one of their many objections to MLF: it would start the Germans toward being a nuclear power. But how in the long run can Germany be kept from wanting the same nuclear...
...Snell would have to do it alone. At the threequarter mark, he was 25 yds. in front-and slowly, almost imperceptibly, his pace slackened. The crowd waited anxiously for his famed kick, that last fierce dash to the finish. But there was no one near him, no one to trigger him, and he could summon only part of it. Time...