Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 1952, Robert W. Toth, while serving as sergeant of the guard at a U.S. Air Force bomb dump in Taegu, Korea, was involved in the killing of a South Korean civilian named Bang Soon Kil. But before murder charges were brought against him, Toth was honorably discharged from the Air Force and went to work in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Five months later Civilian Toth was taken into custody by air police to stand court-martial for the murder. Toth's arrest brought on an important and far-reaching struggle between the civil and military systems of justice...
...thought it was an atomic bomb," said Eyewitness Jean Bainville later. It was not that bad, but the freak landslide that hit Nicolet was a sizable disaster. Three people were killed and 15 injured in the collapsing buildings. The property loss was estimated at more than...
...says the Rev. George Buttrick, Harvard's professor of Christian morals, "the cycle has come full turn. Once we doubted our faith. Now we have come to doubt our doubts." The most overshadowing reason for this is "the threat of nothingness" brought on by the atomic bomb. Adds William D. Geoghegan, assistant professor of religion at Bowdoin College: "The resurgence oi religion is largely due to the shock administered to cultural Couéism by two world wars, a depression, and the painful knowledge that the great powers possess the awesome tools of genocide. Religion is seen...
...Association of Military Surgeons gave the 1955 Gorgas Medal* for distinguished service to Colonel Victor A. Byrnes of the U.S. Air Force Medical Service. Ophthalmologist Byrnes has just reported that even an old-fashioned A-bomb set off at night can cause blindness in unprotected eyes 40 miles away by boiling" the liquid in the retina. Strangely, the injury might be painless...
...leading lady and a ballet dancer"), and Boston paid its respects to the "imported article," as he once tagged himself, by offering him the Harvard philosophy professorship which he held with distinction from 1907 to 1912. But he always sounded as if he wanted his Greek gods to bomb the place. He fumes to William James: "I wonder if you realize the years of suppressed irritation which I have past in the midst of an unintelligible, sanctimonious and often disingenuous Protestantism . . . My Catholic sympathies didn't justify me in speaking out because I felt them to be merely sympathies...