Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen finally did, however, dig out something of what went on-and printed it. The fact seemed to be that Britain, which had been in at the start but not at the finish of atom-bomb making, had at last just about solved the knack of making them. That fact, if it were a fact, had enormous consequences. For one thing, if the U.S. no longer had an atomic monopoly, it would no longer have sole say in what to do about the atom...
Sobriety's rise had one interruption. Lloyd posed for a publicity gag shot lighting a cigarette from the lighted fuse of a small bomb. Someone had made a mistake: the bomb was no fake. It exploded, blowing a hole in the ceiling and taking away part of Lloyd's face and the thumb and index finger of his right hand. Only determination pulled him through the accident and the subsequent surgery. But back into the movie business he went. The intent, slightly bewildered, obviously virtuous face of Harold Lloyd began popping out at movie audiences in thousands...
...night, Nehru went to Calcutta's vast central park, the Maidan, to address a crowd of 600,000 (a rival meeting called by leftists boycotting Nehru drew only 1,000). As he ascended the speakers' platform, a loud explosion sounded on the outskirts of the crowd. A bomb, meant for Nehru, had exploded along the route he had just taken, killing one policeman, wounding four other persons...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, who have been living with their in-laws at Buckingham Palace since their marriage, finally moved into a home of their own: 124-year-old Clarence House; still being given $200,000 worth of decorations and repairs for wartime bomb damage...
...universities, Sir Walter charges, are trying to renounce their responsibility for the education of youth. Philosopher C.E.M. Joad, discussing The Crisis in the New Statesman and Nation, satirizes the university attitude: "You want an atom bomb? Right! We will make it for you. But we really can't concern ourselves with the use to which you propose to put it . . . You want a cathedral? Right! The architectural department will tell you how to build it. But whether you should worship in it or keep pigs in it is a question which falls outside our province...