Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...foamed with dramatic ideas, which perplexed and sometimes distressed the White House. His idea of writing in a clause to include mandatory bomb shelters in every FHA loan contract was quietly shunted aside. Shelved too was a plan to enlist churches in the civil defense program, and it took the firmest kind of official persuasion to keep Ellis from flying off to Rome for a papal endorsement...
Before dawn one morning last week, a plastic-bomb* explosion wrecked Mayor Blanc's ancient Citroën, parked in front of the Beau-Rivage. Blanc leaped out of bed and ran for a phone in a ground floor office-just as the bombers had expected. Fifteen seconds after the first bomb, a second and larger one exploded on the window sill of the office, blowing off Blanc's shoulder and part of his face. "They got me," he gasped and 15 minutes later he died. Who were "they"? Presumably right-wingers who want no parleying with...
Grilled in a BBC interview about his first, pre-Hiroshima months as British Prime Minister, Lord Attlee, now 78, pleaded a layman's ignorance about the implications of the atomic bomb. "I'm no scientist, you know," he said. "I knew nothing about it except that it was a device of some kind to produce a very big explosion." Washington, Attlee insisted, had not kept him fully informed. "But," he added, sucking on his pipe, "that is a kind of post-mortem thought...
...anxiety is higher in situations where the individual feels unable to save himself. The anxiety of waiting for D-day is worse than the fear of walking through a field of land mines. This principle may help explain the attitude of many U.S. scientists and liberal intellectuals toward The Bomb. The possibility of civilization's total destruction is usually cited as one of the great factors contributing to anxiety in the U.S. But there is a strong suggestion that The Bomb is merely a handy device, welcomed almost with relief, for the release of anxiety and guilt that have little...
...buyers in the Doremus development at Thousand Oaks since the shelter offer was announced, a surprising 20 have ordered shelters. Doremus is planning a new subdivision, will offer bomb shelters with those houses...