Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue Bomb...
...military colleagues were not so elated. Retired Air Force General Pierre Gallois suggested that the new provisions are fine but not "for soldiers at war." Another veteran officer imagined a situation where "a pilot of a Mirage IV [French nuclear bomber] receives an order to throw his bomb on Square 88, refuses until he has a guarantee that in his sector is neither a school, a hospital or a church...
...gags to intricately orchestrated sketches. W.illiam Wordsworth's The Daffodils is revived, lyrics faithfully intact, as a rock-'n'-roll song, with Ullett wreaking vengeance on a mangy guitar and Hendra doing a Cambridge version of Teresa Brewer. The BBC news coolly reports that an H-bomb has been dropped on Ireland and asks public-spiritedly: "Would anyone who saw this accident report to the local authorities?" Hendra reminisces about one of his ancestors, a 16th century poet known as "the Scarlet Pimp,"" who composed the immortal ballad beginning, "Foftly, foftly, blowf the gale,/ Upon my miftreff...
Troilus and Cressida, the grand opening production of the Loeb Drama Center, was universally acknowledged to be a bomb. Brooks Atkinson, who came up to review the play for the Crimson, said so unreservedly. Undergraduates said so in tones ranging from surface disappointment to unconcealed pleasure. Troilus's importance was more than ceremonial, however. It weakened the case for Loeb professionalism, since it was hardly a success. It also weakened the status of its director, Stephen Aaron, whose tenure as assistant director of the Loeb was to be extraordinarily brief...
...offense, Yovicsin will try to get his fast halfbacks outside Princeton's heavyfooted defense. Quarterback Ric Zimmerman has shown a propensity to go for the quick six points on long passes, and he may test the Tigers' vulnerability to the bomb...