Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is nothing fatal or final to point to. In Britain, the Tories still hold the husk of the Establishment and hope in the upcoming elections to make it "Four in a Row." The new element is the familiar Anti-Nuclear Bomb movement of today, but in FitzGibbon's time its pony-tailed and sandaled youth has swollen into the biggest political fact in Britain, led by zealots and exploited by those who know that pacifism cannot help but help the Russians. And when, in a landslide-election win, the anti-Bomb boys and girls take power...
...such as Barbara Allen and rhythm numbers such as We Are Crossing the River Jordan, bringing to each a fine rhythmic sense and quantities of fresh charm. So far, she is best known in the coffeehouses of Harvard Square, where she sings, she says, to troubled intellectuals with "the Bomb on their minds...
...Chinese are probably in the research and development stage of an A-bomb program. They may be able to produce a bomb within five years-faster with Soviet help...
...Brutalities." Two days later the court reconvened to hear the case of doe-eyed Djamila Boupacha, 22, a non-Communist government typist accused of placing a bomb (which did not go off) in an Algiers cafe last September. Djamila herself has filed countercharges that police and paratroopers tortured her. "I was taken to Hussein Dey," she charged. "This was, I was told, for the 'second degree' treatment. I soon learned what it meant: electricity torture. Since the electrodes placed on my nipples would not hold, one of the torturers stuck them on with Scotch tape...
...hold their jam sessions. Postwar jazz in Germany was fostered by U.S. Army bands and the Armed Forces Network, and there are now about 50 professional German combos and roughly 1,000 amateur jazz bands, many of them on high school and college campuses. Other amateurs play in abandoned bomb shelters or in the "jazz-houses" erected by German cities to keep youngsters off the streets. What has happened, notes one jazz authority, is that jazz has replaced the family musicale as the "Hansmusik of our time...