Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand eye to eye, missile to missile. In a small American town, a secretary sits in the office of an elementary school and wonders nervously what millions of ordinary people are wondering that day: Will some madman push the panic button? And if he does will the bomb fall on-ZZZRRRZZZRRRZZZRRRZZZRRR...
...question was broached to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru by Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Maxwell D. Taylor on a visit to India last week. Under the proposal, a task force of one aircraft carrier with nuclear bomb-carrying jets and four escort ships would patrol in the Indian Ocean for two to four months at a time. Supplied by support vessels, the task force would never have to tie up at any Indian port for provisions...
...Laurence's 3,000-word story had clearance, but a military censor on Tinian made him boil it down to 500 words-and for some reason the dispatch was then shortstopped on Guam. It never got out at all. The first newspaper accounts of the Hiroshima bomb consisted of stories prewritten by Laurence and others weeks before...
...defendants, five in all, were charged with treason after Nkrumah was wounded in the shoulder by a bomb in an attempt on his life in August...
...into a reasonable facsimile of a Grand Prix car-cigar-shaped body, roll bar and all-by buying a kit for $945. An extra $1,000 buys a brand-new Volkswagen engine, plus a special gearbox, rear axle and suspension-and $2,495 buys the whole 825-lb. bomb from the factory. The family sedan can even be raced as is: just painting a stripe down the hood or a number on the door is enough to transform it into a "touring class" racing machine...