Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Business seemed to slow up on the store, while people spent time marveling over the neatness and timing of the robbery. Coop employee Don Courtney of Medford, who was in the cashiers' cage when the thief entered, said he had "heard a sound like a shot" when the smoke bomb exploded...
Miss Helen Chalmers, another Coop employee was working in the stationery department office when she heard the bomb explode. Three men were "hanging around" in front of the office, she said, and as soon as everyone had stopped work because of the disturbance in front of the store, one of them rushed through the office to the cashiers' gate...
Robert A. Levine '50 was standing in front of the cage waiting to cash a check when he was distracted by the smoke bomb. "By the time I turned around, all I could see was the back of the man running down the book aisle," Levine said...
Weight of a Bomb. Beneath its ruffled and fretful surface, however, the U.S. nation was stronger than it had ever been before in peacetime. Aside from its wheat crop, its not-too-good corn crop, and its $231 billion of produced wealth, it had a technology unsurpassed in history. In the atomic bomb-uneasily held-it held title, hopefully exclusive title, to the decisive military weapon. The U.S. had scaled down its once great military establishment, but it had merged its armed services, which promised better military preparation. How long it would take Russian technology to redress the power balance...
Budapest sewer-jacks stared in astonishment: the Direktor-the chief of sanitation himself-leading a bomb-hunt through the city sewers! Up in the daylight, too,' strange things were going on. Along all the main streets, police searched apartments, checked residents' identity documents. "On a certain day," the police explained, an order would be given for "strict security." All windows must be shut tight and kept that way. "And don't forget to hang out flags," the police added...