Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last spring, the Flying Club sponsored and competed in the Air Meet at Coon messet, on Cape Cod. The University pilots took first place in spot landings, and second and third in bomb-dropping...
This week, weather conditions perfect once again, the animals back in their places, the first test bomb of the maneuvers was finally fired. Barred from the site, newsmen at distant observation points thought they heard a slight rumbling. The expected blinding flash of light was not visible. The AEC would not discuss the explosion...
...Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover his escape. When the assassin touched off the "smoke" bomb, it blew him to pieces...
Last week, Poet Sergei Mikhalkov (coauthor of the Soviet national anthem) lyrically followed up Stalin's announcement of an atom bomb explosion by writing a new soldiers' marching song...
...staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year war's strategy. In his usual slick style...