Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with any weapon that came to hand. In the shadow of 900-year-old Norwich Cathedral, Labor M.P. John Paton thumped out a message to his constituents: "Tory policy means war." In suburban London, another Socialist denounced the Tory candidate: "Nothing but a bloody warmonger." Labor placards in grimy, bomb-battered Liverpool proclaimed: "A third Labor government or a third World...
...explosion occurred in a little house with a corrugated aluminum roof in Caracas' eastern suburbs. Two revolutionaries were assembling a bomb from dynamite and steel pipe when the weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera...
...each bomb and for each brief battle, the junta blamed Acción Democrática, the party of the elected government which the military men tossed out of power and "dissolved" by decree in November...
...work is mostly social. We have no political troubles. Oh, a few bomb-throwing anarchists, but every country has those," said the chief...
Stalin had hardly spoken, before a House Appropriations subcommittee released testimony by Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission that U.S. tactical atomic weapons are "already here." AEC is working on "atomic artillery shells, guided missiles, torpedoes, rockets and bombs for ground-support aircraft, among others . . . big ones for big situations and little ones for little situations," said Dean. "Given the right situation, and a target of opportunity, we could use an atomic bomb today in a tactical way against enemy troops in the field, without risk to our own troops...