Word: waves
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...outline again his church-state philosophy). But his awareness of Ike's impact was implicit in a series of Kennedy shotgun blasts from rostrums everywhere. To counteract the spread of the President's warnings that a Democratic victory would bring a new wave of inflation, Kennedy issued a formal statement in Philadelphia promising "reasonable price stability" and pledging not to devalue the dollar: "Rather, I shall defend its present value and soundness...
...them without "fear of a retaliatory strike that would be too devastatingly costly." But the new-type bomb would move into this stalemate with great effectiveness, and would be used without provoking all-out nuclear attack in retaliation. Predictably, Murray's warning set off a shock wave in the group of U.S. nuclear scientists passionately opposed to any resumption of nuclear tests. Cornell University Physicist Hans Bethe, one of the chief developers of the H-bomb, called Murray's statement an attempt "to divert public opinion from the real issue: to get a treaty that could lead...
...Lerner's presence, and announces to anyone within earshot: "I've got Alan pregnant." Lerner delivers the balance of the lyrics, working with obsessive intensity ; when he is really going strong, he feels ice-cold, has been known to light a fire in the middle of a heat wave while writing. Over the years he has set up a number of semi-fast rules for himself: avoid s sounds, avoid eer sounds above A above middle C, etc. As a lyricist, Lerner lacks the ultrasophistication of a Cole Porter, on the other hand would never commit the more cloying sentimentalities...
From Haymarket Square (where Kennedy admirers were setting off scores of loud firecrackers), the streets were again packed solid with sign-brandishing partisans. In front of the Garden, Kennedy stood in his open car to wave up to a crowd at least 200 feet square. The mob overflowed into adjoining side streets and the motorcade had to inch its way up to a side entrance...
...tests above the atmosphere in 1958 taught that when a nuclear bomb explodes in a vacuum, about half of its energy goes into invisible X rays. These hit the atmosphere and make its oxygen and nitrogen fluoresce in characteristic wave lengths that can easily be distinguished from the spectrum of sunlight. When Los Alamos Physicist Donald R. Westervelt learned about this, he designed a detection system based upon it. A few dozen of his detectors spotted around the earth would be an adequate network. Some of them would always be under clear skies. In daylight they would detect...