Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 50 minutes while Chapel's effects were searched and he was questioned. And he was formally charged with violating a California law (which Chapel voted for in 1961) making it a crime punishable with up to three years in prison to give a false report about a bomb or explosives on an airplane. Said Chapel: "Those airline people got hysterical about it. If they had a sense of humor, there would have been nothing...
They've had a few bomb scares, and the least little thing sets them on fire, I guess...
...ceasefire with relief but without much show of emotion. In two Red Paris suburbs, the news was received with the popping of firecrackers, but that was about the only demonstration. Even the Secret Army terrorists seemed dispirited: the week in Paris was marred by only two plastic bomb explosions...
...Foreign Secretary Lord Home tried a new way of explaining the need for inspection and verification to Russia's Andrei Gromyko. "After all," said Lord Home, "one never knows what has happened when you read the seismograph signals. It might be an earthquake, or it could be a bomb, or it could be Mr. Molotov falling downstairs." Gromyko stared gravely at Home for a long moment, then replied: "Mr. Molotov is not fissionable material...
...been singularly fortunate in that most of their pure science research was done by someone else. During the nineteenth century, all the important innovations upon which we based our technology were made abroad. And even in twentieth century nuclear physics, the United States -- first country to develop the atomic bomb -- exploited the theory of foreigners like Bohr, Fermi, Einstein, and Bethe...