Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speaker. However, his off-the-cuff efforts proved to be full of ballooning sentences, and his speeches from prepared texts tended to be wooden. At one point he threw out all prepared texts and-while his advisers watched him as nervously as if he were a time bomb-made some major speeches off the cuff. That way his sincerity came through, but Ike was not used to the split-minute timing necessary for television, sometimes rambled on, made some blunders. Ike finally settled on a prepared text in a looseleaf notebook from which he reads, with occasional ad libs...
...matter-of-fact fashion, Winston Churchill last week told the House of Commons as much as he thought it should know about Britain's first atomic explosion, set off Oct. 3 off the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia. The bomb (he called it that for the first time) was detonated inside a warship - the 1,450-ton frigate, H.M.S. Plym-in order "to investigate the effect of an atomic explosion in a harbor...
...Louis Leprince Ringuet of France: "I have even had occasion to see the expression 'Iron Curtain of the West' applied quite widely to the U.S." Says Professor M. L. Oliphant of Australia, who was refused a visa although he was a key man in the U.S. atom bomb project: "At times I feel very bitter about the situation, since I believe that, in the fields of radar and atomic energy, I have been of some help...
...looking man with a Hitler haircut marched into the prosecutor's office in the German city of Lübeck a fortnight ago, and told a story that made the cops gasp. His name: Lothar Malskat, 39, artist by trade, and one of the painters who restored the bomb-burned 13th and 14th century frescoes in Lübeck's Lutheran Church of St. Mary (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951). His trouble: he was an art forger and he wanted to confess his crimes. In the past few years, he said, he and another artist named Dietrich...
...last week, a tubby, blond young man strolled into Israel's Foreign Ministry carrying a briefcase. The Israeli police had been warned and were ready. They grabbed him. Inside the briefcase they found a 6½-lb. bomb, timed to explode in ten minutes and blow Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and his staff to pieces...