Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story published last week by the Wilmington (N.C.) Morning Star, the paper identified the "attackers" as a team of its own reporters and photographers, plus a couple of friends. The "weapons" carried in the boxes were not bombs and guns but prewritten notes designed to point up lax security. At Second Division headquarters, for example, one of the van teams taped up a note in a rest room a short distance away from the office of the division commander, Major General Alfred Gray. "If this had been a bomb, it could have blown up this building," the note read. "Think...
...appalled at the wording NUCLEAR POWER Bombing Out? used for TIME'S cover. One misconception of the general public is that nuclear and bomb are necessarily connected. Your choice of words reinforces the erroneous popular notion that anything nuclear constitutes a destructive force...
...February's "The Easy Chair," Lapham dropped the bomb. Harper's would become "a synopticon of fact and fiction," summarizing ideas and trends, reprinting short articles from other sources, providing a list of interesting facts from around the world and establishing a Forum on ideas of national interest. The monthly that had won the 1983 National Magazine Award for General Excellence was going to cut back on its essays and polemics, admit that jounalism was at its nadir, and begin dealing in second-hand short forms and juxtapositions of images...
...explosion as a violation of a 1974 Soviet-American agreement that limits underground detonations to 150 kilotons (150,000 tons of TNT). Although the force of the weapon tested last week was classified, DOE officials said it was considerably lower than 20 kilotons, the explosive yield of the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The blast registered 4.5 on the Richter scale on seismographs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. But DOE officials said the instruments probably gave a high reading because the test was conducted in hard rock, which sends out a more powerful seismic ripple than does sandy soil...
...Middle East duties would have made him a prime target for extremists from the region. Authorities are most alarmed over the possibility that some of the estimated 300 Italian terrorists known to be at large may have allied themselves with the pro-Iranian Shi'ites responsible for car-bomb attacks on the French and U.S. Marine compounds in Beirut and the Israeli headquarters in Tyre last fall...