Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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TIME (July 8) ... says that at Bikini "the carrier Independence was ... a shambles." A mess indeed, but since there were no men on it and at most a few goats, was it a bloody mess? Again . . . "In the Far East transportation ... is a shambles." Does your correspondent mean that train and plane wrecks are frequent and gory, or merely that he found it difficult to get to Shanghai...
Something of the terror and wonder seemed to have gone from man's attitude toward the atomic bomb. Bomb No. 4 had been exploded at Bikini before a world-wide radio audience and 40,000 pairs of frightened eyes. Bomb No. 5, set off last week, was the tool of seasoned weaponeers, and the world watched less in fear than in curiosity at the damage it would...
...BIKINI ATOLL--The floor of Bikini Lagoon was a junkyard of naval might today, testifying to the terrific power of the underwater atomic bomb whose explosion sent 11 vessels to the bottom and heavily damaged at least four others...
Atom Bomb Test (Wed. 5:30 p.m. -tentative - all networks). The second test at Bikini, with eyewitness accounts, short wave static permitting...
There were 118 newsmen aboard the press ship Appalachian at Bikini, and the competition was keen. Some of the boys, anxious to get their stories moving ahead of their rivals, wrote "eye-witnessers" in advance. One even faked an "interview" with Bombardier Harold H. Wood, the man who dropped the bomb. ("It was like dropping a cherry on a frosted cake.") And to make it authentic, the reporter added a personal detail: "I was thrown against a bulkhead and my typewriter knocked off the table by the jarring blast...