Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barbarous rebels who continued to plague the government last week. A column of French-speaking mercenaries led by Major Siegfried Müller, an ex-Wehrmacht sergeant who wears a German Iron Cross, was neatly ambushed at Bafwasende by Simbas, who used an electrically detonated gasoline bomb in the middle of a jungle track. A third of the column's 40 vehicles was destroyed, three mercenaries and eight Congolese soldiers were killed, and the column remained pinned down for five days. Clearly the Simbas are better armed and trained than ever before. It will take more than a black...
Harvard had one abortive little scoring outburst early in the second half before Princeton sewed the game up. In a three-minute span Sedlacek hit two 20-foot jumpers; Merle McClung sank a fall-away jumper; Barry Williams swished a foul shot; and Al Bornheimer scored on a long bomb, making the score a respectable 41-31. But in the next three minutes the Crimson, ruffled by a Tiger press, committed six ball-handling errors. Princeton quickly pulled in front 51-33, and after that the game degenerated into a sloppy, foul-plagued rout...
...literally hold nothing sacred; the best of the black humorists hold some things too sacred to be bleared with hypocrisy or smeared with prurience. So they mock with a cleansing mirth every emotionally supersudsed subject from sex and death to religion, patriotism, family pieties money, mom, war and the Bomb. They are as well aware as any conventional morahzer that the times are out of joint, but they choose to greet the dislocation with a jeer rather than a jeremiad...
Walk Out in Anger. Their novels reflect an outlook and a mood that today pervade many other areas besides fiction. Dr. Strangelove, treating the hydrogen bomb as a colossal banana peel on which the world slips to annihilation, is a black-humor movie, even though it becomes so incredible that it kills its own joke. Satirical cabaret groups, such as Chicago's Second City or Britain's The Establishment, have offered some of the liveliest black humor, though they can hardly meet Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan's criterion that such satire is successful only if at least...
Continued American bombing of North Vietnam is "leaving us in the position of having either to bomb or to look ridiculous after future guerrilla attacks," Barrington Moore Jr., senior research fellow in the Russian Research Center, told an overflow crowd of over 500 last night in Lowell Lecture Hall...