Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleep through. The explosion of almost a full case of dynamite-which any real man in Osage can handle in the dark-gutted the town's biggest building, the 17-room school. Sheriff Charles J. Whiston, 42, quickly reinforced by squads of FBI men, found that the bomb had been set off by mining detonation wire, which would work from the headlamp battery a miner wears on his hip, went to work on such fragmentary other clues as a snagged thread from a pair of blue jeans...
...bullet in the back, a mine on the road, a bomb in a chocolate box-British civilians as well as soldiers were dying ugly deaths on Cyprus, and the British at home were getting into the kind of mood that approved the gallows on the golf course against the Mau Mau in Kenya. London's big popular newspapers demanded a "get tough" policy against the Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like...
...after a terrorist bomb exploded under a settee in a Royal Air Force canteen, killing two airmen, the British in retaliation abruptly dismissed some 4,000 Greek Cypriot employees (but not the Turkish Cypriot employees) from all of the island's R.A.F. bases and canteens, thus throwing many innocent people out of work. If, as the British maintain, most Greek Cypriots deplore EOKA terrorism, they were being made...
...speech did not lack for repercussions. Presaged by phone calls and threatening letters, a time bomb appeared one morning on Curley's doorstep. Investigation revealed it to be the work of Harvard students: a box of peppermints wrapped in a copy of the Boston Herald, to be ignited the ringing of an alarm clock...
...strontium radioactivity per gram of calcium. A cross section cut from it and laid on X-ray film for 82 days gave off enough atomic radiation to take a sharp picture of itself. For contrast, an antler that grew in the same place in 1952, before the H-bomb tests, showed only 11.2 micromicrocuries of radioactivity...