Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thrust of 7,500 Ibs. The engines may even be used as secondary power sources to give an extra 15,000 Ibs. of thrust to the B-52 on takeoff. The Hound Dogs do not interfere with the B-52's normal H-bomb load; each missile simply adds a one-megaton hydrogen punch and an extra reach that combine to make a single B-52 the mightiest weapon ever seen...
Intent on making lively the arrival of France's Premier Michel Debré in Algeria, six men sat around a table in an Algerian village tinkering with the timing device of a bomb. The bomb exploded and the six were blown to bits...
Delighted with the results. Teacher Vernon failed to observe a simple fact: the children were terrified. "I was crying when I wrote my essay," said Jean Francis. "So were Lesley Brown, Vicky Weir and Susan Howarth." Complained one mother: "My little girl came home sobbing about an H-bomb. Now she daren't go upstairs in the dark." Jean Francis' father gruffed: "This could upset their whole lives...
...James's Park to watch a cacophonous fireworks display including "The Cross of Lorraine," a "Grand" Girandole of Shells and Mines," and finally, "Ten Signal Aerial Maroons Exploded at a Great Height." Cracked a London newsman: "The explosive power of the demonstration probably equaled one French A-bomb...
Leathery, blue-eyed Victor L. Butterfield, 56, is no man to blame The Bomb or The Affluent Society. The main cause of student lethargy, says he, is the "paternalistic" U.S. system of spoon-fed lectures and assembly-line grading. "We treat students more as prep-school boys than as adults under guidance...