Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson, in Washington: "I believe we should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb. As a layman, I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible. Of course, I would call upon other nations to follow our lead...
...Foster's Old Black Joe). Bulganin stood up smiling and raising his arms like a boxer acknowledging applause, signed autographs and patted student cheeks. In New College quadrangle, students set off a huge firecracker which made B. & K. jump, led Bulganin to quip: "Are they making an atomic bomb...
...Kiev in 1939 a man in the uniform of a railroad official threw a bomb into the compartment of a train in which Khrushchev was sitting. Two passengers traveling with Khrushchev were killed. (The small slit scar under his nose is believed to be a memento of this incident...
...Thailand into gloom with the revelation of one misfortune after another: two solar eclipses in one year, a holiday bus crash in which 22 people died, the deaths of a number of prominent Thais. Only last week, on the very eve of the goat's departure, a live bomb accidentally fell from an air force plane and killed 27 Thais...
...blind men and the elephant. Under Godot's metaphysical counterpane, believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play has not a casual but a thematic plotlessness, and not an unintentional but a planned garrulity...