Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preceding few days by U.S. reconnaissance planes over Cuba. They furnished staggering proof of a massive, breakneck buildup of Soviet missile power on Castro's island. Already poised were missiles capable of hurling a megaton each-or roughly 50 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb-at the U.S. Under construction were sites for launching five-megaton missiles...
...combat broke out over the last can of pork and beans. Said North Hollywood Grocer Sam Goldstad: "They're nuts. One lady's working four shopping carts at once. Another lady bought twelve packages of detergents. What's she going to do, wash up after the bomb?" Yet for all such transient evidences of panic, the U.S. was solidly behind Kennedy. As he himself had discovered on his election-year forays around the nation, it was the overriding wish of almost all Americans to "do something" about Cuba...
...article said that I believed the United States should bomb the Soviet missile bases in Cuba. This statement was taken completely out of context. What I did say was that if the bases could be proven a dangerous threat to American or world security, and if the Russians did not withdraw peacefully (as they now seem to be doing), then I would favor a pin-point bombing of the bases rather than an invasion seeking the ruthless destruction of the present Cuban government...
After they play "Humiliate the Host," George proposes other games, like "Get the Guests." Nick gets Martha. George tries to goad Honey into listening to the lewd off-stage cavortings of their spouses, but she is locked in some private bomb shelter of her sodden fearful mind, and will not hear. At this point, the play achieves a suffocating vision of evil that would take a second Flood to cleanse. Even sin is sterile. Martha returns with a crestfallen Nick and announces mock-grandiosely: "I am the earth-mother, and you're all flops...
...scientists get their comeuppance when a computer misfires. Planes are accidentally signaled to bomb Moscow, and before they can be stopped, they have done just that. President Kennedy frantically calls Premier Khrushchev. Says Kennedy: "All day you and I have sat here fighting, not each other, but rather this big rebellious, computerized system, struggling to keep it from blowing up the world." Replies a chastened Khrushchev: "Yes, we both trusted these systems too much. You can never trust any system, Mr. President, whether it is made of computers, or of people...