Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probably safe against any rightist coup for a year or more. But what will happen when the Bolivian tin miners discover that working for the government is sadly like working for Patiño? When the Paz regime was organized, a diplomat observed: "There is a time bomb in that cabinet, and his name is Juan Lechin." Now Minister of Mines as well as boss of the tin miners' union. Lechin is the second most powerful man in Bolivia...
...quick-setting liquid plastic (aero-plast), sprayed from an aerosol bomb, makes a better dressing for wounds, and especially burns, than Vaseline gauze. It keeps body fluids in and keeps dirt and germs out; it seldom needs changing, and its transparency lets the surgeon look at the wound as often as he wants. Best of all, it can be applied by unskilled hands, so it can be kept handy in front-line aid stations, civil-defense posts, airplanes and crash ambulances...
...inner fires of elan. In the years after World War II, it had parried the persistent attempts of Army brass (including Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency, it had won the right to rebuild from its postwar nadir of 67,000 to a ceiling of 400,000 men, organized in three divisions and three Marine air wings...
...bomb or not, nothing can deprive the corps of its pride in itself and its past, and its confidence that those are the best guarantees against an uncertain future. Explained a World War II platoon leader at Camp Lejeune last week: "The only way I can describe it is like this: I was in three actions in the Pacific. I never had to look behind...
...Negro gatherings preceded the riot. "If we leaders had been allowed to address our people, there'd have been no rioting," said Njongwe. "The government should issue an ultimatum," said one of East London's whites. "Hand over the murderers or we'll bomb the location to bits...