Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Kennedy. This had all the earmarks of a calculated leak designed to con the West into accepting Khrushchev as its favorite Communist. So did the report that Chairman Liu had boasted that his country now has four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China's nuclear potential to disarm the West, while simultaneously telling Peking that with just a few years' patience Communism could peacefully attain absolute military and economic superiority over the West...
With the same weapons that made life unbearable for Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's new revolutionaries are setting out to make nightmares for the new dictator. Not a day passes without a bomb explosion in Havana-a grenade tossed inside the Capitol Building, a Molotov cocktail splashed against a government Jeep. One night last week bombs exploded in a water main, a power transformer, a government-operated filling station, several shops...
Although in later installments (previewed last week for the press) the program fills the air with Messerschmitts and Supermarine Spitfires, shows Panzer tracks across the tulip beds of The Netherlands and bomb explosions muffled in the soft sands of Dunkirk, the series is much more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing...
...Commentary, Encounter, or the Sewance Review. I was never selected Managing Editor of the Week, nor invited to be Publisher of the Congressional Record For a Day. I was never H.L. Mencken's copy boy, never a courageous war correspondent, and I was not there the day the bomb fell...
...even out of power, Tizard was to with Lindemann once again before war ended. "This row, the second, climactic row," was over Lindemann's decision to push strategic bomb- Lindemann, now Lord Cherwell, in the Cabinet, sent out a paper gave impressive estimates, of the strategic bombing of low class housing would have...