Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist side, it was a week of Khrushchev huffing and puffing: now Nikita exulted in the impressive achievements of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the Russian scientists who plotted his course; now he brandished the claim of a Soviet bomb equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT; now he scoffed at Western strength ("Gentlemen capitalists, your arms are too short...
...will perish" in a new war. he proclaimed early in the week, almost incoherent with excitement, as he waved his arms at a "friendship" rally in the Kremlin for Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, visiting boss of Red Rumania. "There will be no open cities, no front, no rear, if nuclear bombs are unleashed." Khrushchev brutally promised to send rockets raining on Italy's orange groves if war came; he had also included Britain in his target area, and now, to the mocking laughter of the satellite sycophants around him, said, "As you know, the roar of the British lion does...
Plastic Applause. By day. Algiers appears as peaceful as any city of France, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr. After sunset, the streets resound to the powerful explosion of plastic bombs. Some nights there may be only three or four; once last week there were 19. When European audiences in movie houses hear the muffled roar of a distant bomb, they break into applause. The victims of the explosions are Moslem shopkeepers. Frenchmen who are considered to be liberals or Gaullists. or policemen who appear to be searching too hard for European terrorists...
...When I get my shelter finished, I'm going to mount a machine gun at the hatch to keep the neighbors out if the bomb falls. I'm deadly serious about this. If the stupid American public will not do what they have to to save themselves, I'm not going to run the risk of not being able to use the shelter I've taken the trouble to provide to save my own family...
...drive toward Paris. Retreating German troops had blown up two of three bridges across the Mayenne River to stop the Americans; the Germans planned to dig in for an all-out fight for the town. Only the 150-ft.-long Savings Bank Bridge remained, and a 250-lb. bomb and 15 cases of dynamite had been wired to blow its stone structure to bits...