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Word: bomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chats up a little bit of all right (June Ritchie) who is just as twee as she can be on five quid a week, and so blonde he doesn't notice that she's dumb-like a fox. She sprays him with a boy bomb of cheap scent called "Desire." and the next thing he knows she is standing there with her clothes off. Some weeks later she's got news for him: "Om pregnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Matter of Wife & Death | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...effect of the McCarthy bomb was devastating. Bartolet and Bassett tried to get Harvard back in the game with a similar approach, but Bassett's pass fell short and Bartolet found himself facing five Crusader linemen when he dropped back to throw. They tackled him, viciously...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Powerful Crusaders Bomb Crimson; McCarthy Sparks Explosive Attack | 10/15/1962 | See Source »

...through the ceiling into the first-floor accounting office, then hurtled down into the cafeteria again and through the far wall into a file room. Stumbling through the choking, smoking chaos of shattered walls and furniture and bodies, survivors thought the city must have been hit by an atomic bomb. Many of them joined hands in human chains to guide each other outside. Photographs of the blasted mass of wreckage had an eerie unreality, suggesting the paintings of Lyonel Feininger. Fire Commissioner Edward Thompson later diagnosed the disaster as a probable failure of automatic devices designed to regulate the boiler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Taken Unawares | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import and relevance to modern existence. The tone is radical and very youthful (although not doctrinaire in any way--probably the nearest thing to a party label that could be pinned on Messrs. Miller et al. would...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Beyond the Fringe | 10/10/1962 | See Source »

When asked to name a few of his organizations, he offered: "Tocsin--that's the ban the bomb group isn't it? And oh yes, the conservative club .... and I might have even joined the Liberal Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN (Continued) | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

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