Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become so unattractive that her children won't take it on." In London last week, the new Shute was full of woolly Australian sheepishness. In the Wet, he explained, was the result of "several astringent years of Socialist rule" and "the sniff of decay in the still bomb-shattered London. I had forgotten the resilience of my own race. Britain sparkles with optimism. London is a city with new buildings brushing shoulders with the old ..." Novelist Shute-an aeronautical engineer whose full name is Nevil Shute Norway-was sparkling with optimism too. The new, noncontroversial The Rainbow...
...money are more successful than begging for pennies. To study radiation. Lawrence brought in his physician brother, Dr. John Lawrence, then with Yale School of Medicine, who soon proved the isotope-making cyclotron's worth in disease research. World War II gave the isotopes another use: the atom bomb, which the cyclotron helped make possible by producing purified uranium 235. This achievement by Lawrence, one of the six U.S. scientists appointed to weigh the bomb's possibility, was a green light for the Manhattan Project...
...Hypnotized. They had been picked up by the Jordanian police, shortly after a bomb explosion in an Amman office building, with the evidence on them...
...court, young Stepho said that at the American University he had come under the influence of a wealthy young Arab nationalist who dominated him "almost to the point of hypnosis," and had ordered him to set off bombs in Jordan. His chief feeling of guilt, he said, was for having involved "innocent" Nadia in the bomb plots; she had not known what was in the package in her bag. Asked if she still loved Stepho, Nadia answered that "certainly, my love has faded a bit." Snapped the military prosecutor: "Only faded? Don't you now hate him?" Nadia glanced...
Stacked Plane. In Hialeah, Fla., Charles R. Morris, who reportedly made a $100 bet with a man in a Hialeah bar that the plane the man was about to catch would be late taking off, was arrested for making a hoax phone call to Eastern Air Lines reporting a bomb on the aircraft...