Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle Hymn. High among the wild, beech-clad uplands, not far from the cave where a German bomb wounded Tito in 1943, the old campaigner of the Balkan Mountains and the younger conspirator of the Cairo barracks spent the night together in an army tent. Tito regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through...
...orders, and eight elderly civilian hostages live with no complaints. 'Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway.' On the 4th of July the rebels served up roasted pig for dinner. The hostages were shown bomb casings with U.S. markings, were taken to see a dead three-year-old boy 'with a big hole in his head' from a Batista air raid. They were also harangued about the delivery of 300 rocket warheads to the Cuban air force at the Guantánamo base...
Genetics & Bomb Tests. A part of the public seems to think that the chief concern of genetics is the hereditary damage that may or may not be done by the radioactive fallout from nuclear bombs and bomb tests. Geneticists insist that this matter is not a central part of their science, but none of them takes the potential effects of fallout lightly. They have spent their working lives with experimental organisms deliberately deformed by radiation. They know how recessive damaged genes persist unnoticed for many generations, only to appear (and perhaps to kill or cripple) when two of them meet...
Also high on the agenda is THE RECONCILING OF CONFLICTS BETWEEN AND WITHIN NATIONS. Said one bishop: "the H-bomb will come under discussion, but I doubt if we shall come out 100% against it. After all, death from an H-bomb is no different from death by a bow and arrow. The bomb itself is neither good nor evil. It's something like the Industrial Revolution. And as for its alleged genetic aftereffects, think of the havoc wreaked on future generations through malnutrition and so on after Gustavus Adolphus had stormed across Europe...
Battle Against Bugs. Aerosol owes its existence to the anopheles mosquito. During World War II two young Department of Agriculture scientists, Lyle D. Goodhue and William N. Sullivan Jr., developed the "bug bomb" to kill mosquitoes. The Government got the patent on aerosol (it still licenses, free, all marketers of aerosol insecticides); Scientists Goodhue and Sullivan got nothing...