Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a great pity if the Administration built up hopes--almost certain to be dashed--that Kennedy's talks with De Gaulle will end in some kind of new entente. France is not likely to change her desire to wield an independent bomb, and De Gaulle is not likely to be any the less adamant on the need for a revised NATO command structure...
...Second Bomb. Then, in December 1959, Lieut. Colonel Gardiner was sent to Jordan to serve with a British military advisory group, became unofficially Hussein's chief anti-bomb and security officer. When an assassin tried to blow up Hussein last year and succeeded only in killing his Premier, Gardiner was the first man to enter the smoking offices to search for a possible second bomb...
Toward the Peak. Kramer should have no trouble keeping his part of the bargain. The current U.S. tour started out as a box-office bomb; in a crowded Augusta, Ga., during the week of the Masters Golf Tournament, only a handful of spectators turned out. But attendance is now picking up, largely because perennial Champion Gonzales is finding Newcomer Gimeno a tough man to beat. As the tour swung into the Midwest last week, Gimeno trailed Gonzales by seven matches (12 to 5) and he was growing more confident daily. "In two more years," said Gimeno...
...final panel, on "Leisure is Suburbia," was a bomb. Bosley Crowther, movie critic of the New York Times, leered at one of the female panel members and sniggered suggestively at his own off-color jokes, before piously denouncing over-sexed movies. Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd, fought with a Commissioner of Planning about whether Puerto Rican children should be allowed to swim in Westchester County pools...
...first time in five years, the Harvard freshman debating team won the annual Triangular Debates with Yale and Princeton. The topic was "Resolved: That the state and federal governments initiate a substantial bomb shelter program immediately...