Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Typical of such decisions were the choice in England and the United States to start work on the atom bomb, and the choices in the U.S. and Russia about intercontinental missiles. Snow's "parable," however, concerned the secret decision made in 1935 in England to develop radar...
...confreres on the General Advisory Council were profoundly wrong at that time, both in their scientific estimates about the feasibility and practicability of the new weapon. It turned out later that the Soviet Union was no more than six months behind us in nuclear technology. Their thermonuclear or H-bomb test was made, in fact, only about six months after ours...
...Army technical sergeant in World War II, David Greenglass committed parts of the A-bomb to memory, passed on his data to his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, and her husband Julius for transmission to the Soviet Union. As an accomplice to the espionage, Greenglass turned state's evidence against the Rosenbergs, drew a 15-year stretch in 1951. Two years later, the Rosenbergs were electrocuted at Sing Sing. After more than nine years in a federal pen, Greenglass, 38, was turned loose in Manhattan last week, went off to join his wife Ruth and their two children. On emerging from...
Jungle Jim Ullyot, the CRIME's strong right-footed quarterback, threw three Herculean touchdown passes to had the home team's relentless attack. The CRIME racked up a total of 456 yards 451 in the air and five on the ground as halfback Tom (the Bomb) Pepper tripped on a beer can and rolling 15 feet down the riverbank...
...Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) Donen behind it plus a script by Harry (Reclining Figure} Kurnitz based on a novel (A Gift from the Boys} by Columnist Art Buchwald. But as far as entertainment is concerned, Package contains only what is known in show business as a bomb Director Donen clearly intended to tell a shaggy-dog story the way John Huston did in his hilarious Beat the Devil but unfortunately, Donen's dog turns out to be all bark and no bite. The hero (Brynner) 'is a big-time hood deported from...