Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Bombing. Britons, who have voiced concern lest a headstrong U.S. use its air bases in England for atomic bomb flights against Russia, were pleased by a Truman pledge: the U.S. will not use the bases for A-bombings without consultation and approval by the British...
MAJOR GENERAL HANS SPEIDEL, also 55, who was chief of staff to Field Marshal Rommel in France, later imprisoned for complicity in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler, and liberated by the French army. A straight-backed man who thinks like a general but looks like a professor (after the war he taught history at Tübingen University), Speidel is the big military brain of revived West Germany. In his postwar memoirs (Invasion 1944), he showed a familiar German military rationalization-that the army would have won if it had not been stabbed in the back (in this case...
...World War I about men showing all these symptoms but with no injury," he says, "so we looked for such cases in World War II. We never found one. Perhaps later examination showed that the man had had a brain concussion, or died from carbon monoxide produced by the bomb. So-called 'pure shock' may exist, but I haven't seen it. To me, so far, it's a bogy...
...bomb sent the whole railway station right up into the air, its golden cupola sailing over the trees. Another wrecked St. Catherine's Church. Watching from )behind the barbed wire of the concentration camp, 509 felt a sudden soaring of .he spirit. He crawled toward the camp barrack, determined to stay alive...
...rest of the story, how man discovered the atom bomb and began to think and then DID something about it, is as delightful as it is simple. Tashlin has taken an old idea and given it his own special poke, which makes The World That Isn't laughable, believable, and desirable...