Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...
...bright future of three-dimensional films (TIME, Feb. 9) was Hollywood's No. 1 topic of talk. Said Movie Spokesman Eric Johnston last week: "This may well go down in history as the year 1953-D." Wrote Gossipist Louella Parsons: "Nothing since the atomic bomb has struck the motion-picture industry with such force...
...fuse of the bomb was the unexpected public interest in depth pictures. When the recent big box-office returns started coming in from 3-D movies, the rush began for the vaults and the warehouses to dust off and improve 3-D equipment. The basic principles of three-dimensional films have been kicking around for more than 25 years-e.g., audiences back in 1937 put on red & green glasses to watch Pete Smith's "audioscopiks...
President Eisenhower's refusal to grant executive clemency to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted atomic bomb spies, brought a sharp divergence of opinion from members of the University faculty yesterday...
...suggestion of General George C. Kenney that the U.S. should bomb Communist bases in Manchuria: "[It is] no way to end the [Korean] conflict unless we are prepared to put 5,000,000 men in there on the ground." As to General Kenney, who headed World War II Pacific air operations, Truman slurred him off as "MacArthur's flyboy...