Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II correspondent for the Chicago Sun. He won the Ernie Pyle award in 1946 for distinguished war reporting. Death nearly touched him more than once: in Burma he escaped the massacre of the Chinese unit to which he was attached, and on Leyte a bomb fatally wounded three U.S. newsmen sleeping alongside...
...song was Dowling's personal courage. Terrified of flying, he tried to overcome his fear by parachuting. On Luzon, he made a battle jump with the 11th Airborne Division in civilian street shoes. Result: one broken ankle. Said TIME HEMISPHERE Editor John Walker, who survived the Leyte bomb blast with Dowling: "Being with him made you braver than you were...
...Years' Change. Cold war has shattered the U.N.'s first foundations (the wartime Grand Alliance), mangled its basic assumption (Big Power unanimity), surrounded it with perils undreamed of by most of its founders (the H-bomb and Communist expansionism). The revolt against colonialism has all but doubled U.N. membership. Yet all these vast transformations, says Dag Hammarskjold, make the U.N., or something like it, not less but more essential. In this unyielding conviction, Hammarskjold believes that the nations are in San Francisco not to bury the U.N., but to reappraise...
...Clara Petacci were lowered into potter's field graves in Milan. Midway through the conference came the news that Hitler was dead. In the Utah desert, while the Pacific war raged on past Okinawa, a B-29 named Enola Gay was secretly being tested to carry the bomb that would make Japan, already defeated, plunge headlong into surrender...
Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and as nerve-racking as a bomb; with Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine (TIME...