Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Punch and London's News Chronicle, including a cartoon-strip parody on Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and illustrations for books and magazines. Now, at 40, Searle is developing his more serious side (he conveniently blew up St. Trinian's with an A-bomb). He prefers to be "something of a roving reporter," recently completed a distinguished book on Europe's refugee camps. As for the Big Four at the summit, he painted each conferee as he saw the man's position, and "put that incredible public-relations man Khrushchev in front...
...wooded crash site, technicians gathered the twisted fragments and sorted them into the plane's component parts. Metallurgical tests showed that the fuel tanks had been subjected to terrific pressure inside and had exploded. Studying fragments from the baggage compartment by microscope, the experts ruled out sabotage by bomb. Further investigation showed that neither the engines nor the plane's internal wiring system had caused the explosion. Eventually, the scientists eliminated all known possibilities save one: St. Elmo's fire...
...check, but he usually prefers cash-in advance. Las Vegas' gaudy New Frontier once pleaded that its check was as good as anyone's. "No check is good," replied the Colonel, his eyes soft as ball bearings. "Some are pretty good, but they got an atom-bomb testing place out there in the desert. What if some feller pressed the wrong button...
Birmingham whites and blacks share a community of fear . . . Every channel of communication, every medium of mutual interest, every reasoned approach, every inch of middle ground has been fragmented by the emotional dynamite of racism, reinforced by the whip, the razor, the gun, the bomb, the torch, the club, the knife, the mob . . . Telephones are tapped . . . Mail is intercepted and opened . . . The eavesdropper, the spy and the informer have become a fact of life...
...death. A man and a woman lie in each other's arms in Hiroshima. Their bodies fill the screen in a luminous abstract of desire. But into this image of life burst images of death-recorded by Japanese cameramen who moved into Hiroshima the day after the bomb fell. Director Resnais permits himself no sensationalism, but the merest glimpses of the horror that was Hiroshima-acres of charred and moaning humanity-remind the audience with cruel force that the man and woman are making love in a mass grave...