Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advent of the thermonuclear bomb means that the first 20 or 30 hours of a major war would probably be decisive for the tight-packed British Isles, and Britain must therefore go all out to build up an atomic bomber force, capable of destroying Soviet bomber bases-either in coordination with the U.S. Strategic Air Command or independently...
...investigators were considering the request when another event took the decision out of their hands. The rebels sent out a P47 Thunderbolt that impudently buzzed an O.A.S. observer plane and went on to bomb and strafe the town of Liberia. At the same time, invaders' infantry and Figueres' volunteers met in a clash just north of Liberia. A few hours later, at 2 o'clock one morning this week, the council met again in emergency session and grimly voted to ask the U.S. to sell Costa Rica four P-51 Mustang fighters. That afternoon the planes were...
...Tossup. But in West Berlin, the remains of the old Municipal Opera company struggled to survive in a house whose ceiling was still perforated by bomb fragments. The Western occupation authorities did not include opera in their budget, so Municipal singers got starvation salaries. The few able conductors and singers who stuck with it did so only out of loyalty to the company or because their political consciences forbade them to sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup...
...week's most-talked-about show was Ed Murrow's See It Now, which presented a half-hour "conversation" with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, directing genius in the making of the atom bomb and last year (TIME, July 12) denied security clearance by a 4-to-1 vote of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...Dale's biggest chance to show his muscle came in 1951 after Joseph V. Moreschi, president of the hod carriers union, made Dale the union spokesman for a pool of 38,000 construction laborers building power plants at Joppa, Ill. and Shawnee, Ky. for AEC's A-bomb plant near Paducah, Ky. Teaming up with James Bateman, 63, who ruled the Joppa plant's pipe fitters, Dale lost no time in calling on the Joppa plant's major contractor, Ebasco Services Inc., a subsidiary of Electric Bond and Share Co. Pointing out that...