Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four days later, in the biggest bomb shell of news to rock the nation since Communist Tito broke' with Communist Stalin in 1948, the Yugoslav foreign of fice announced the advent of another set of visiting dignitaries. Due in Belgrade within a fortnight are Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev (his name came first), Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin, Trade Expert Anastas Mikoyan, and a passel of lesser Communist sherpas...
...hair of a sporran. Stubby Scotsmen in sack suits, caps pulled down and pipes jutting from the crags of their faces, listened to the rough organ music of Aneurin Bevan. "In the Labor Party, it's true we've been having an argument about the hydrogen bomb, and I've been in the middle of it to a certain extent." The crowd laughed appreciatively at his understatement. "We argue . . . over our policy . . . We don't reach our policy in quiet country houses...
...rough, savvy sort of pell-meller-perhaps the best thing of its crude kind that Hollywood has offered in 1955. The idea of the picture, trenchantly written by Sydney Boehm and slickly directed by Richard Fleischer, is as simple and as nerve-racking, as a bomb. Three thugs arrive in a small Arizona mining town to hold up the bank. While the robbers prepare their plans, while the bomb ticks away in the mind, the moviegoer stares with itchy horror into the faces and the lives of the innocent bystanders who will be caught in the eventual explosion...
Harold L. Goodwin, test operations director of the Federal Civil Defense Administration, said that anyone within one mile of the blast would have been killed by radiation or flying debris. A few people in deep bomb shelters might have survived, but even two miles from the blast injuries would have been serious and few would have escaped...
...device at Yucca Flat was a small one. An H-bomb tested in the Pacific was 500 times more powerful...