Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak commitment of 19,400 United Nations troops to restore a sullen peace to the strife-torn Congo. By June 30, the last 3,000 members of the U.N. force will be withdrawn, and already chaos is coming back. Leopoldville has been rocked by a succession of antigovernment plastic-bomb explosions since May. In Kwilu Province, the Communist-inspired Jeunesse (youth), led by Pierre Mulele, still hold their own against Congolese troops. Though one of the Congo's provincial presidents recently sent Premier Cyrille Adoula a hippopotamus, the traditional sign of loyalty, it is clear that the Congo...
...STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about nuclear war features fine performances by Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and the ubiquitous Peter Sellers...
...Bomb. All through the scoreless first half, the Peruvians matched the smoother Argentines with a spirited attack that drew wild cheers from the crowd. Then halfway through the second half, Argentina scored to take a 1-0 lead. At last, six minutes from the end, a Peruvian forward battered his way past an Argentine defender, toed a loose ball in front of the goal, and booted it home for the tying score. A roar like thunder burst from 50,000 throats. Then there was stunned silence in the stands. Referee Angel Eduardo Pazos, a Uruguayan, signaled a foul against Peru...
...field. A huge Negro, Matías ("Bomba") Rojas, with a police record for previous attacks on referees, came scrambling over the 9-ft. barbed-wire-topped fence separating the stands from the playing field. And the cry went up: "Ahí va Bomba [There goes the Bomb]!" The cops caught him just before he could reach the referee. "I hate to see Peruvians lose," he muttered as the police hustled him off the field. "I don't know what happens to me. I get hot all over...
Following the Bomb's lead, other fans got hot all over and raged onto the field. The terrified ref hurriedly called the game, giving Argentina a 1-0 victory, and fled to the security of a steel-doored dressing room. At that, the entire crowd went berserk. In the center of the field, a small knot of beleaguered cops started lobbing tear-gas grenades into the onrushing mob. Trying to restore order in the upper stands, a hapless policeman was seized by his hands and feet, swung back and forth and hurled to his death on the concrete...