Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Graetz, white pastor of a Negro Lutheran church and also an active boycott leader. No one was injured, but Graetz and his family might well have been slaughtered as they ran from the house in panic; in their front yard police found still another bomb, made of eleven sticks of dynamite, which failed to explode because of a defective fuse...
...immediate effect of the bombings was to do what the Negro boycott had never done: 1) to stop all city buses from running, and 2) to evoke the sympathy of most of Alabama's thinking whites. The city commission, declaring a state of emergency, suspended all bus operations "until further notice" and urged parents of both races to keep their teen-age children off the streets at night. Some 75 police reservists were alerted for emergency duty; special squads were armed with shotguns and tear gas. Alabama Governor James E. Folsom, after a tour of the damaged areas, offered...
...ATOM Way to Survive Haunting many minds in the Atomic Age is the dark thought that an H-bomb or H-missile attack would be so devastating that survivors, if any, would be reduced to Stone Age primitiveness. Not necessarily, says Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, and sometimes called (he modestly disclaims the tag) "father of the H-bomb." Writing on "The Nature of Nuclear Warfare" in this month's Air Force, Teller argues that a nuclear attack on the U.S. need not be "cataclysmic" and casualties...
...French mourners at the Froger funeral became a mob when a bomb, set to explode when the mourners were gathered around the graveside, went off prematurely. The mob surged through the streets, 10,000 strong, smashing windows, overturning vehicles, yanking Moslems from their cars and lynching them, jeering at the U.S. consulate near the funeral church and spitting on its walls. The Moslems retaliated. Bombs exploded in four churches during Sunday services. On New Year's Day a bomb exploded in Algiers' swankiest hotel. Others were tossed at cafés all over Algeria; cyclists were machine-gunned...
...planted a bomb to blow up Baby Doll," cried an anonymous telephone caller to Hartford, Conn, police one night last week. The police shepherded 1,500 moviegoers into the street, searched the theater for an hour and a half but found nothing more explosive than the film itself, Playwright Tennessee Williams' sullen drama of degeneracy in the South (TIME...