Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just one aggravation after another. One woman complained that her furniture was shrinking. Another said that her bra strap had snapped eight times in one day. A farmer north of town found his hens uninterested in such mundane matters as egg laying. And someone threatened to chuck a bomb at Mayor Jack Wilkes...
...assumption that increase in knowledge will enable society to better manage its affairs is not borne out by history. Gallup praises individualism but concludes that supersecret group thinking, such as the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bomb, is the intellectual wave of the future. As for the roseate vision that mental muscle building will enable man to "solve any problem that comes within his purview," even Gallup occasionally sobers up. "After a time," he concedes, "human beings run out of ideas...
...STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Inadvertent nuclear war is sometimes hilarious, sometimes horrifying in Stanley (Lolita) Kubrick's comedy of terrors...
...conceded that France held a commanding lead over China in nuclear development, a candid admission considering the rudimentary nature of the French deterrent. "We'll also have our bomb," he said. "It's a sign of strength. But that doesn't mean that...
...Service. Small and shadowy, the ALQ probably numbers only a handful of Quebec's 5,500,000 citizens. But each bomb blast and armory raid dramatizes a cause whose aims, if not means, arouse the sympathy in many French Canadians-Quebec separatism...