Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language, however, makes a crisis seem monotonous. Note his description of a bombardment scene: .". . .Rraapl. . . Whah!. . . Rrango!. . . Whah!. . . Rroong!. . . That's about the noises made by a real molten torpedo. . . the most enormous! In the heart of a black and green volcanol. . . What a burst of fire!. . . Another bomb grazing us! goes exploding right into the current. . . The blast rocks us. . . Your guts all ripped out. . . Your heart popping into your mouth...
...Fighting Lady (MGM) has moments as fiery and explosive as a bomb rack loaded with napalm. Put together from two Satevepost articles (by James Michener and Commander Harry Burns), the film takes a documentary look at a carrier-based jet squadron engaged in daily and seemingly profitless strafings of a North Korean railway junction. But when it struggles with its own pet moral problem ("No man is an island," etc.), the pace rapidly falls off from jet propulsion to a soporific amble...
Some of the inhabitants of the two little atolls of Rongelap and Utirik, caught accidentally in a rain of radioactive coral dust from the March 1 H-bomb test (TIME, March 22), were showing distressing symptoms-" lowering of blood count, burns, nausea, and the falling off of hair from the head," said the petition. " The people . . . would have avoided much danger if they had known not to drink the waters on their home island after the radioactive dusts had settled on them." U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. was quick to tell the U.N. that the U.S. was " very sorry...
...French delegation flew to Dienbienphu. But around this time, it finally dawned upon the French commanders that they had been outwitted: the Communists were releasing no more than a pathetic handful of wounded per day, while their advance guards were driving down roads the French had agreed not to bomb (see below}. The French were risking defeat in the next battle to save a few gallant survivors of the last. So GHQ decided, "for technical reasons," to cancel the entire evacuation agreement, and to start bombing Route Coloniale 41. But GHQ assured the Communists that they were still ready...
...hydrogen bomb, said Dr. George K. A. Bell, Bishop of Chichester, England, "clearly . . . cannot be regarded in any other light than as a sin against God. The duty of a man to his Creator, respect for nature, and respect for fundamental human rights alike cry out for the complete prohibition of atomic weapons, together with whatever steps are necessary for its effective enforcement...