Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of complaints from freshmen, the Union Committee issued a plea last night urging constituents to refrain from violence against the two bomb-throwers, who were apprehended Sunday night. They left the University yesterday. The Administration had no official comment...
...three weeks' lease on 10 Downing Street, but he is counting heavily on a five-year renewal at the general election, May 26. On their side, the Laborites were making plans to blast him right out again. They chose the biggest weapon they could find-the H-bomb, which had come near to blasting Labor's own ranks less than two months ago when Party Leader Clement Attlee and rebellious Nye Bevan fought about it in the House of Commons...
...annihilation," said one Laborite, "to bring chaps together." In a quiet meeting of the parliamentary Labor party, ousted Bevan was taken back into the fold without a whisper of opposition, and in the party manifesto outlining Labor's platform, Nye Sevan's stand against the nuclear bomb took first place, followed by the usual biting condemnation of everything Tory...
...Labor platform merely goes a bit further than the Conservative. It calls for an immediate end to all atom and hydrogen bomb tests, immediate withdrawal by Chiang from Quemoy and Matsu, the "neutralization" of Formosa, and admission of Red China to the U.N. What both of these platforms add up to can be described in one word-appeasement. So, whether Tories or Socialists win this election, we'll have an "ally" dedicated to knuckling under to Red tyranny all around the world and persistently pressuring our Government to do likewise...
Nothing quite came off on schedule last week. Especially the atom bomb tests in what the announcers persisted in calling "Doomtown, Nevada." Faithful televiewers turned out at 8 a.m. for six successive mornings only to be met each time with fresh postponements. But this failure to make a rendezvous with fission only brought out the essential pluck of the network newscasters. CBS's Charles Collingwood tried hard to keep his end up by filling in with a telecast from Las Vegas where, amid the clatter of one-armed bandits, he solemnly asked the proprietor of The Sands Hotel...