Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cadet-Crimson clashes, as Harvard fell by scores of 27-13 in 1981 and 17-13 last year. A big play and a big running back stopped the host Cantabs in '81, when Gerald Walker's 150 yards rushing and a 71-yard Bryan Allem to Al Wynder neutron bomb made the difference...
...final destination on this mini-tour of the political underworld is fittingly, Washington D.C., where the military government of Chile murdered one of its exiled opponents with a car bomb in 1976. Chile's democratically elected government was brutally overthrown in 1973, when the U.S. engineered a coup that put General Augusto Pinochet in power...
Based on E.L. Doctorow's novel The Book of Daniel. Daniel was inspired by the 1953 trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, members of the Communist Party executed for selling bomb secrets to the Soviets. Their guilt or innocence of espionage remains a subject of debate today, fueled by the appearances of several books about the case this summer. Daniel tells the story of the fictional Paul and Rochelle Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin and Lindsay Crouse), 1940's Communists executed for the same charges, and under the same ambiguous circumstances, as the Rosenbergs. The story is told by Daniel, the Isaacsons...
...sandals began to burn. Next door is another little house, once shared by Chu Teh (with wife) and Chou En-lai (with wife) One notes: a private house for Mao, for his two closest companions a shared cottage. Here Mao lived until 1938, when the Japanese began to bomb Yanan and he moved three miles north to the cave encampment at Yangjialing...
...Sichuan, the handsome old government palace was blown to bits by Red Guards; in its place they erected a new hall filled only with portraits of Mao. In Chongqing, workers fought each other with machine guns, artillery, armored cars and tanks. In Harbin, the factions used air planes to bomb each other. In Peking, Red Guards stormed and burned the British embassy. In Wuhan, center of the great iron and steel complex as well as of several universities, steelworkers shaped up in three rival bands, while universities formed rival student bands, all warring within and against one another...