Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms, sprinted a block and, with tears running down her cheeks, hid behind a stone wall. Then she ran another block. When the driver of the Mercedes returned a few minutes later, he found a crew of young men trying to take the car apart in search of a bomb...
...West Beirut, many buildings bore scars from the current crisis. Palestinian and Lebanese Muslim fighting men remained at their guard posts, as a few stray civilians removed possessions from bombed-out apartments. Near the en trance to the Shatila refugee camp, children splashed in a pool created a few days earlier when a bomb dug deep into the earth and struck a water main...
There were scarcely enough hospitals and doctors in Beirut to tend to those injured in the bombings. Lines of stretchers waited outside the American University Hospital. Distraught civilians kept vigil at the city morgue. The old, long-empty Triumph Hotel was converted into a P.L.O. hospital. Most of the patients were from the three Palestinian camps near Beirut airport that had been bombed by Israeli jets. In one of the dingy rooms on the fourth floor lay Autra Waehe'h, 43, who had deep shrapnel wounds in her right side. An Israeli bomb had crashed into the house next...
...greatly imperil his own or anybody else's virginity. In short, Gregory (Gordon John Sinclair) is what one used to think of as a typical teen-age boy back in the days when adolescence was a goofy phase that adults could afford to indulge instead of a time bomb that needs to be defused. Gregory's Girl seems to exist in some Brigadoon of the mind, where psychologists and sociologists are unnecessary and probably unheard of. Indeed, the setting is a far-off corner of Scotland, in a government-sponsored "new town," which supports a livelier life...
...point, one of the T-Birds leads a Pink Lady into a fallout shelter in the hope of making out with her there. He explains that the place is for use in case of "nucular." "Nuclear," he is corrected. "Nucular, nuclear, a bomb is still a bomb," he replies. You said...