Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...essays years ago. "Why," he asked, "is [a] man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?" Percy discussed the estrangement of the commuter passing through New Jersey: his needs are entirely satisfied, but he feels bad. "The Bomb would seem to be sufficient reason for anxiety," Percy wrote, "yet it happens the reverse is true...When everything else fails, we may always turn to...the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and the Coming of the Last Days. The real anxiety question, the question no one asks because...
What then? Well, the Bomb didn't fall, and we seem to have survived that too. Apparently, even having nothing to worry about is nothing to worry about. We haven't created paradise, of course. Too many people are poor, thwarted, sick. Still, it's hard to think of a time when conditions have ripened so satisfactorily. For people like me there remains only this consolation: it can never last...
DENVER: Providing the first scientific testimony linking Timothy McVeigh to bomb materials, FBI chemist Steven Burmeister told jurors that when McVeigh was arrested after the Oklahoma bombing, his clothing carried traces of PETN, an explosive used in bomb detonator cord. It was a dramatic ending to a day that the defense spent in attacking the credibility of the embattled FBI crime lab, including accusations that FBI forensic scientists contaminated key pieces of the Ryder truck used in the bombing. Several of the shards of the truck found near the explosion site are instrumental to the prosecution's case because...
DENVER: After two weeks of testimony from 80 witnesses in the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, sources tell TIME's Patrick Cole that the government could rest its case as early as next Friday. Originally, prosecutors had said it would take six to eight weeks to present their evidence from a line-up of 327 witnesses. "Prosecutors now feel they don't need to overprove this case," Cole says. "They don't want to bog down the jury with unnecessary details." The prosecution strongly believes that they are winning over jurors with the often powerfully emotional testimony...
JUDGE RICHARD MATSCH He's no Ito. No-nonsense Oklahoma bomb-trial judge shields jurors and gets show on the road...