Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team of guerrillas, however, had successfully lobbed a 57-mm. shell (from a captured U.S. recoilless rifle) into the fort, setting it afire. The battle raged until morning, when three waves of government planes, some piloted by Vietnamese and some by Americans accompanied by Vietnamese trainees, finally appeared to bomb and strafe the fleeing Viet Cong. Not until early afternoon did Vietnamese paratroopers arrive; by then, the enemy had disappeared. At nightfall, however, despite the paratroopers' presence, the Communists had managed to remove most of their 56 dead. Reported government casualties: 18 dead. 12 wounded...
...Kennedy recognizes, other scientists do want to test. Nevertheless, the Manhattan project and the great postwar evaluation of the atomic scientist's moral responsibility suggest there are socially concerned researchers who devoted years of their creative lives to the atomic bomb and other nuclear projects, but who prayed against the use and flatly opposed testing and further development of their inventions. It is time for the rest of America's scientists to realize that the peace race will not be a spectator sport, and to make some of the sacrifices Kennedy so often requests...
Szilard, who, with Enrico Fermi, the first sustained nuclear reaction led directly to the development of bomb, now devotes full time...
...When a flight to Luxembourg was canceled, the orchestra arrived by bus 15 minutes before concert time and with no luggage. The musicians played in sweaters and slacks. In Seville, the orchestra arrived during a flood (the concert became a benefit for flood victims), and in Aleppo, Syria, a bomb exploded outside the hall during the concert. Inside, the orchestra played calmly through a new orchestral version of the Syrian national anthem, hastily drafted by Conductor Hanson. Syrians liked it so much that it will probably be adopted as the official orchestral version...
...ready to take it up. But if quality is lacking, quantity is not. In the 16 years since World War II, more poems have been composed in the U.S.-last year more than 200,000 were submitted for publication-than were written in ten centuries between Beowulf and the Bomb; and in Britain, poetic production has approximately doubled in a decade. What's more, sales of poetry on records are tuned to unprecedented volume. U.S. poetry buffs have bought 50,000 platters of Robert Frost reading Robert Frost, 400,000 of the late Dylan Thomas reading Dylan Thomas...