Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left to measure, studied the effects of the blast that had been seen as far as Kwajalein, 375 miles away, made ready to conduct still more tests. Then, after two years of work and two months of grim experiment, the atom armada came home. They had exploded the largest bomb ever...
...carries on the war in Korea, he added, the U.S. should bomb beyond the Yalu, even though that means risking war with Russia. If the U.S. means to win victory in Korea, it should also apply a naval blockade even if it has to do so without allies. He would put U.S. air and ground troops into Formosa to help defend it, but he did not think that Chiang Kai-shek is in any shape to "conduct a significant operation against the mainland...
...Gotten to the stage where it can talk confidently of mass-producing vastly improved atomic bombs, building a hydrogen bomb, tactical atomic warheads for artillery and guided missiles, and atomic engines that would "reduce almost to the vanishing point the dependence of naval vessels and military aircraft on bases of fuel supply...
...rest of it in the buzz of barroom talk. That was in May 1941. In the next ten years, the world fought the bloodiest war in its history, the British Empire nearly went down to defeat, the King David Hotel (bar included) was badly damaged by a terrorist bomb. But Richard Usborne, an advertising man, never stopped worrying about what could possibly be the story behind that lion...
...about political affiliation and the ownership of bathrooms are several revealing facts about the Class of '26 that few people knew before. For instance, the Class boasts in its ranks one former presidential candidate, one probable embezzler, one arsonist, and one fellow responsible for "the secreting of a stink bomb in the ventilating system of the New York Stock Exchange...