Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part in constructing the bomb and handling the test explosion, Physicist Penney (TIME, Oct. 13) will be knighted. He first learned this on a news broadcast; Churchill had tried to reach him beforehand but the telephone operator refused to give out Dr. Penney's unlisted home telephone number even when told that the Prime Minister was calling...
Government was refusing to sell arms to the Red-tinged Guatemalan government. He hurried to Guatemala City, claiming that he could buy "anything from boots to an atomic bomb." By his accounting, over the las't three years he bought in Italy, Switzerland and Spain, and sold to Guatemala, forty .50-caliber machine guns, six half-tracks, 3,000 pairs of boots, 20 bulletproof vests, and trucks, jeeps, rifles, bazookas and ammunition. He netted some $200,000, tipped barbers at the Palace Hotel $5 for a 75? haircut. But Guatemala, nettled by the Eagle's noisy revelations...
...sweeping single line with a half sphere rising at each end; the other, shaped like a long, low boat. In both, Noguchi wanted to symbolize the city leaving the past for a new and better life. But the symbolism was lost on most Japanese. "The A-bomb," said one, "wasn't abstract, you know...
...them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...
Everything, Including ... In Tokyo, the Navy announced that Lieut, (j.g.) Carl B. Austin, aboard the carrier Princeton, had attached a kitchen sink to a 1,000-lb. bomb and dropped it on a major North Korean city to let the Reds know "we mean business...