Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moviegoers waited outside the Harvard Square Theatre for 45 minutes yesterday afternoon while members of the Cambridge Police and Fire Departments searched the theatre for a bomb that wasn't there...
President Charles de Gaulle last week detonated a political bomb that scattered fallout from the Formosa Strait to Washington's Foggy Bottom. The blockbuster: France will "soon" recognize Red China...
Well before the Surgeon General dropped his bomb, the manufacturers were employing new economic tactics. Having diversified into such things as razor blades and canned fruit punch, they are rolling out new pitches and products to keep their main business growing. Philip Morris and P. Lorillard, taking a leaf out of Raleigh's old book, recently have begun backing some of their brands with gift coupons (47,185 Alpine coupons for a mink stole); Liggett & Myers recently brought out its triple-filter Lark brand. Six out of ten U.S. smokers have already switched to filters, and last week Surgeon...
Dicey, Mumbo and Sheikie were bosomless chums at St. Agatha's, an all-too-proper girls' school in the south of England. They carried on like so many Peck's bad boys in bloomers, planted a gelignite bomb in a bicycle shed, conned free rides in horse-drawn victorias, raced down High Street frothing at the mouth with lemon sherbet powder to convince townspeople that they were possessed by devils. But their biggest adventure in that ill-fated summer of 1914 came the night they buried a coffer of "valuable treasure"-dog chains, bones, a message...
There were two glimmers of real humor. One had to do with General de Gaulle's fondness for the possessive -how he likes to say "my bomb, my army, my Europe and even, on occasion, mon Dieu." The other was a remark about the virus that has got the best of Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home. Said David Frost, British M.C. of That Was the Week That Was and a guest on the American show: "Hume is in bed with flu, or if you prefer, Home is in bed with...