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Word: bomb (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...dangerous. Dangerous to the status quo, and to our ideal of an untarnished hero. He has energy. He has charm. His brittle smile can be the most unsettling experience in cinema. His characters seek the unanswerable. He can love and kill in a single breath. Like a glass time-bomb, intricate and wired, he is capable at any instant of erupting into wicked, verbal violence...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

...policy in the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe might go something like this: Soviet tanks begin to roll across the continent, overrunning weaker NATO conventional forces. The allies, unsure how else to react, turn quickly to the nuclear arsenal. From it they select a single bomb and explode it somewhere in the sky over Europe, demonstrating our readiness to fight a nuclear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Meaning Of Deterrence | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

China got the bomb, but have no fears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lehrer Sampler | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...just in case we better get a bomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lehrer Sampler | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

When Alabama gets the bomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Lehrer Sampler | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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