Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some circles in Scranton, Pa., talk of sugar in the gas tank or the stench of a stink bomb is likely to evoke gales of laughter. It also evoked interest on the part of Senator John McClellan's labor-rackets investigating committee, which followed its nose to the aroma and found-rotten eggs in Scranton's building-trades and teamsters unions. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Ungentle...
...thought that was very amusing to me, because, well, I have smelled rotten eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only...
...Laborites seemed scarcely interested. Instead, with the nagging insistence characteristic of the troubled British conscience, the Laborites waged an inconclusive and none too logical debate among themselves on whether or not the government should go through with the scheduled test of Britain's first hydrogen bomb...
Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell offered a motion to "postpone" the British test while Britain tried to get international agreement to halt all H-bomb tests. Leftist Richard Grossman, one of Labor's most brilliant and least predictable figures, urged renunciation not only of the H-bomb but of all nuclear weapons. George Brown, Labor's current defense spokesman, had endorsed the test only a fortnight before. "We must be able to show any aggressor that we have the bomb. The only way to do this is to show that you have successfully tried...
Mere Coincidence. Inevitably, the U.S.S.R. moved to capitalize on this uneasiness among the world's free nations. In London, Valerian Zorin, Russian delegate to the U.N. Subcommittee on Disarmament renewed the Soviet "offer" to abandon H-bomb tests if the U.S. and Britain would do likewise. As usual, however, the men in the Kremlin were working both sides of the street. Two days before Zorin's statement, the Russians exploded a nuclear weapon of their own. It was the fifth (and one of biggest) Russian nuclear explosion in two weeks-explosions which, by curious coincidence, came hard...