Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, as the widow of Juan Perón prepared to return to Spain, where she has lived in exile since her ouster by a military junta in 1976, a bomb was found aboard the plane. Quickly transferring to another aircraft, she told well-wishers, "Nobody dies five minutes before one's time...
Viet Nam was a different kind of war for the U.S. It was a shattering time, a bomb that originated a world away and went off in the middle of the American mind. Even at this remove, the war is still intensely felt, but now in a more reflective, inward way. The Viet Nam Veterans Memorial, dedicated in 1982, is as popular as the Lincoln Memorial and the National Air and Space Museum. The entombment of the Unknown Soldier was another symbol of the nation's respect for the uniquely complex ordeal of the Viet Nam veteran...
...river for two hours, until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora's headquarters, the journalists found the guerrilla commander at a narrow table. After some cheerful banter, the questioning began. Suddenly, in the middle of a response, a bomb exploded in a white-hot flash. "It was a human whirlwind," said José Antonio Venegas, a photographer for La Nation, a Costa Rican newspaper. "Blood splashed against the walls, people flew through the windows. Someone screamed, 'Save me, help me, don't leave me here!' All I knew...
There are now approximately 50,000 nuclear weapons. They have brought the world to a state of critical mass: the detonation of one bomb or warhead could touch off a chain reaction leading to the extinction of the human race. For a fact of life-the existence of those weapons-to be so bound up with the possibility of the death of the planet is an affront to reason and conscience alike...
...anti-war movement as a whole, of course, certainly made its contribution. Daniel Ellsberg claims that the March on Washington in November 1969 prevented Nixon from dropping the Bomb on Hanoi. Our building occupations, however, had nothing to do with the mobilization. Some have surmised that militant protest expanded the spectrum of reaction to the War, and made of conservatives liberals and of liberals anti-imperalists. Others claim that we sparked the massive insubordination on the battlefield that forced the withdrawal of American ground troops...