Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Also a factor is the strain of modern living. According to research, such emotions as anger and anxiety trigger dormant allergies, including hay fever...
...force de frappe to concern himself with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of others. In fact, the U.S. itself now was less than enthusiastic about the idea; among many Washington officials, there is a nagging doubt as to the wisdom of putting 15 fingers on the trigger of the Bomb...
...multiplying population were causing an "explosive situation" inside China. Openly critical of China's foreign policy, Nehru bluntly accused Peking of "creating situations and tensions among the nations of Asia." Angrily he refuted China's contention that Tibetans in refugee camps in India were being recruited to trigger a revolt in Tibet. "Whatever might happen to Tibet in the future." he said, "it is obvious who is now riding on the backs of the Tibetan people." The nagging doubt remained that Nehru had often in the past put up a brave front against the Chinese, only to back...
...miles to the U.S. The Russians had made great gains in putting a bigger punch into a smaller package (weight-yield ratio), thus could increase either the range or power of existing weapons systems. They had approached perfection in a clean bomb. (In some of their blasts, the fission trigger-which is the main source of a bomb's radioactivity-formed only 2% of the explosive yield.) They were able to fire warheads that survived the punishment of re-entry into the atmosphere, something the U.S. had not even tried. Most significant, their high-altitude tests indicated work...
...convictions were shaped in a career that is typical of yesterday's Africa. He was born in 1907 in a seedy flophouse in Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, run by his parents. Michael and Leah Welensky. A huge, hard-drinking Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. Michael Welensky cut off his trigger finger to avoid conscription by the Czar's army, sought his fortune as a fur trader in the U.S. before settling in Salisbury after the diamond rush. Son Roy (his real first name is Raphael) quit school at 14; after a series of odd jobs ranging from baker...