Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Athens suburb where the Poros was due to dock later in the day; the two people in the car were killed. Greek police speculated that the terrorists planned to take over the vessel, bring the explosives onto the ship and turn the Poros, with 505 aboard, into a floating bomb. The gunmen on the vessel might have learned of the car explosion and decided on aimless killing instead...
...lucky ones, able to react quickly; most of those who were sleeping or relaxing in their cabins had no chance at all. Rigger Tony Sinnett, 34, watched in horror from a rescue craft after his escape. "It was as if the platform had been hit by an atom bomb," he said. He recalled seeing * half a dozen men on the platform's helicopter deck "who seemed to be waving. But then the deck keeled over, and the men disappeared...
...Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb...
Weaned on Anglophonic rock 'n' roll, Americans have long been resistant to foreign pop-musical imports whose accents are other than English. ABBA, the Europop megagroup of the '70s, sang in English, not Swedish; Japan's Pink Lady was a bomb in any language. But the Latin sound could be different...
...scenario was all too familiar. As U.S. Navy Captain William E. Nordeen, 51, a military attache at the American embassy in Athens, was setting out for work in his bulletproof Ford Granada last week, the morning calm was shattered by an explosion. A bomb planted in a Toyota sedan parked near Nordeen's home had been detonated by remote control as he drove by. The blast hurled Nordeen's car across the street; the captain's decapitated body was found more than 100 ft. away in the yard of an abandoned house...