Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lima, Ohio (pop. 49,880) was all set this week for a realistic air-raid test. Twenty-five cops were ready to explode black powder bombs all around the city, ambulances were standing by, and civil-defense workers were waiting to care for the injured. Then the realism got too thick. A bomb exploded prematurely, fatally injuring a policeman. Then another bomb went off ahead of time, and another cop was hurt. An ambulance screaming out on a make-believe run crashed into two cars, sending six victims to the hospital. Because of a mixup, no civil-defense workers were...
...When the Atom Bomb exploded, the fears that had always haunted the febrile brain of human beings--fear of death, fear of living, fear of pain and hunger, fear of magic and the night found new roots in the dark uncertainties of life...
...Bomb, the Cold War with the resulting fear of Russia, the Soviet discovery of atomic energy in 1949, and the espionage trials in the U.S. have produced fear after fear, according to Biddle, and from this has come the laws, acts, ideas that threaten our freedom...
...course. Now, now boys, mustn't touch the ferris wheel, must we. There now, look out for that motor... What madame?" I took the reference with a shrug and started to ask about the latest in atom bomb kits. She shoved a microscope at me and raced down to the other end of the counter. Two of "my" boys were racing the mechanical cars head...
...culture; in Honolulu. Born to an Irish father who married a Maori tribal princess, Buck led the hard-fighting Maori troops in World War I. He wrote about Polynesians in Vikings of the Sunrise, helped the U.S. Navy resettle Polynesians who left Bikini to make way for the atom bomb tests...