Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many also remembered something else: the feeling of scarcely admitted relief. On Pearl Harbor Day, the line between right & wrong had been drawn with the sharp definition of a bomb splinter. There had been only one possible course which Americans could accept without reservation. Last week, as 1947 drew to a close, many wondered if anything could ever seem so terrifyingly simple again...
...clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down in the excavation...
Someone tossed a bomb into the yard of Communist Thorez's house at Choisy-le-Roi. Thorez was unhurt, but his wife was cut by flying glass. Without conscious irony, Thorez remarked: "There seems to be a lack of order in the country...
...next day the German nation read Freiburg's story in scare headlines: the French had bombed an open city, a peaceful university town. Eleven children, 46 others had been murdered. Hitler ranted that he could no longer hold to his pledge never to bomb an open city...
Behind it all sits the atom bomb, something everyone knows about and about which nobody says anything. I was riding through the Czech countryside one evening and in the distance I saw a great lighted building. I asked the Czech I was with what it was. "It's a factory," he said. Then I asked him what it produced. "Oh . . . I don't know," he said, and then, "Yes, yes, well they make . . . how do you say . . . guns . . . yes, machine guns. But not only guns. They make machines and other things, too." Here's a guy apologizing because we discoved...