Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well and good for E. Hemingway to march off to Italy in 1917 with a bottle in one hand and a gun in the other, and feel that he was a hero. Remember, in those days a bomb destroyed but one building, and when people said "A war to end all wars," they believed...
Winston Churchill, when he led the Opposition against the late Labor government, complained tellingly about Britain's failure to produce atomic bombs of its own. "It is indeed depressing," he said in the House of Commons last February, "that we have been outstripped by the Soviets in this field." So far as the public knows, Britain still hasn't produced a bomb, but last week it proudly hailed a byproduct. British nuclear scientists have learned how to heat a building by tapping the heat given off by a reactor. Beginning this week, a building with 80 offices...
...Washington's fusty old State Department building, representatives of industry, labor and local governments met last week to hear how industry should protect itself against the atom bomb. What they heard was hardly worth the trip...
...Southwest, land of rockets, atom bombs and flying saucers, had another sensation last week: green fireballs streaking across the sky, behaving like nothing ever seen by earthlings before. In 13 days, eight brilliant objects dazzled Southwesterners. According to Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, head of the Institute of Meteoritics at the University of New Mexico (TIME, Nov. 12), a fall of nine bright meteorites in a year over a comparable area would be considered exceptional. "I just don't know what to make of it," said Dr. LaPaz. "I am almost inclined to ask those [atom bomb] fellows out in Nevada...
...Southwest was already abuzz with rumors. The fireballs were being pinned on White Sands (rocket) Proving Ground in southern New Mexico, as well as on the Nevada bomb testers. So far, no one had yet suggested another invasion of the famous flying saucers with their bright little crewmen from Venus or Mars. But people were beginning to report "things in the sky" as far away as New Jersey and New York...