Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that "of all cultural adjustments, the notion of an end to progress seems the most difficult for Americans to accept." What is progress? The neutron bomb, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Miami? Perhaps the real American myth is believing that progress will eventually solve our cultural, economic and spiritual problems...
Bakhtiar, the last Prime Minister of the former Shah, allegedly figured at the center of the aborted "Zionist-Iraqi-U.S." plot. According to President Abolhassan Banisadr, the conspirators intended to occupy two Iranian airbases and bomb a number of strategic targets. Among them: Khomeini's home north of Tehran, the Tehran International Airport and Faizieh religious school in the holy city of Qum. Tehran spokesmen charged that the plotters hoped to tell Iranians over radio and television that "the patriotic army of Iran has overthrown the rotten government of the mullahs," and then invite Bakhtiar back from...
...Sierra Leone under Stevens is like Liberia under Tolbert: a time bomb waiting to explode." That grim forecast comes from a Western diplomat who has had long experience in both countries. Indeed, even a casual visitor is likely to spot similarities between the two West African republics. Both countries became havens for former slaves in the 19th century. In Sierra Leone, the "creole" descendants of these settlers still dominate the country's business and educational elite-as did scions of the freed slaves in Liberia until the recent coup. Sierra Leone gained its independence from Britain in 1961; seven...
FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙ Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ Rough Strife, Lynne Sharon Schwartz ∙ The Second Coming, Walker Percy ∙ The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
...gift in the mail from an unknown admirer. After ripping open the package, he awkwardly pulled the book it contained out, away from his body. That move probably saved his life. Inside the hollowed-out copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers was a spring-activated pipe bomb filled with explosive black powder and pieces of shrapnel. Because the bomb exploded a few feet away, Wood survived, though suffering heavy lacerations on his legs and chest...