Word: bom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against the Quakers the Princeton signal-caller completed 10 of 19 pass attempts for 140 yards, and two touchdowns. Not satisfied with his acrial bom-bardment. MacBean also carried the ball six times for 32 additional yards...
...says. "It doesn't bother me." There is more dignity in his presence now, though he can still be ol' "Bom"?a childhood nickname, taken from "Bambino," that his oldest friends remember?standing there beside the backyard barbecue pit, swathed in an apron and holding a Manhattan on the rocks as he contemplates his prized swimming pool. That scene is increasingly rare. Though he still manages to swim before breakfast and before going to bed, almost all his waking hours are spent before congressional committees, at press conferences, or in one of the endless Pentagon meetings...
Call to Arms. Absence of such a statute has given rise to a sense of helplessness among officials of the federal Bureau of Mines, the agency directly responsible for mining safety at the federal level. Under present law, the BOM inspectors are supposed to make periodic, unannounced checks of the mines to ensure that safety procedures are being followed. But they lack authority to impose any punitive measures on mine operators who continually violate the law. And despite BOM denial, many miners claim that the mine operators are informed of inspections ahead of time...
...BATTLE OF ALGIERS. Italian Director Gillo Pontecorvo's newsreel-style account of the F.L.N. guerrilla war against the French explodes with the power of a bom be plastique...
...Henry Livings' running assault on logic, the glorification of a British "nit," a living non sequitur whose code of life is "Bim bom ban on the brain...