Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rumbling through the night somewhere between Cambridge and Washington, several nascent "peace marchers" huddled around a small reading light and talked of the Washington Project, and why they were going. They were all afraid, though not with the frenzied, irrational fear of sudden annihilation. Very few believe a bomb is going to drop on their heads tomorrow. Rather, they spoke of the "escalating" arms race and the frustration of prolonged negotiation and international deadlock. Certain images recurred in the conversation: spirals, circles, nets. Images of impotence, despair and endlessness...
...members of Bertrand Russell's Committee of 100, the six had hoped that the trial would serve as a soapbox from which to present their ban-the-bomb views. But painstakingly, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (nicknamed by detractors "Sir Reginald Bullying Manner"), stressed that the issue of the trial was not the political or moral beliefs of the defendants, but the fact that in trying to crash the gates of the Wethersfield base, they had conspired to violate Britain's Official Secrets Act. Backing him up, the bench brushed aside the defendants' attempts to question...
From Scotland Yard's records came the file on James Hanratty, alias Jimmy Ryan. Mentally retarded from the age of four as a result of a World War II bomb blast, Hanratty had undergone brain surgery and electric-shock treatments, been in and out of reform school and prison. Out went the alarm to pick him up. One night in mid-October, police in the English coastal town of Blackpool on the Irish Sea nabbed him on a routine check of teen-age joints. Hanratty protested his innocence, but from a police line-up paraded before her hospital...
...wholly owned by cynical Wall Street speculators? That U.S. foreign policy is dictated by the Rockefellers? That the country is a police state run by J. Edgar Hoover? That hundreds of Negroes were lynched last year in Little Rock, and the U.S. Air Force aims to drop an H-bomb on Havana...
Questioning the validity of estimates which envision a two-week period in a shelter, Leon D. Bramson, moderator of the WHRB panel, raised the problem of the cobalt bomb...