Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...isobutane had not exploded. Billy lay there, like a man listening to the tick of a time bomb, as passersby, police and firemen pried, pushed and wrenched at the stubborn steel. Then suddenly, with a great, soft whoosh, flames burst from the tanks, lashed fiercely at the faces of four rescuers...
...retrospective show contained a pitifully small sampling of Marcks's early work. The Nazis had melted some of it down for shell-case metal. More had been destroyed when an Allied bomb wiped out his Berlin studio in 1944, and still more when Russian troops arrived in the Mecklenburg town where he had begun some, new work. The Russians smashed the new work, as if Marcks had been Hitler's pampered...
Culture, as he defines it, is being destroyed not by the atom bomb but by the fact that religious faith is declining more rapidly than ever before, that government planning and nursery schools are smashing the family group, that social barriers are being hurled down everywhere, and the last islands of regional diversity corrupted by mass communications and the passion for mass education...
...should be bitter," he went on. "But the bomb brought immediate surrender, which saved many more lives than were lost. While it destroyed materially, it did not destroy spiritually. It has meant that we Japanese who are left can build a better and freer country than the one our militarists took...
After Due Consideration. In London, the War Office's British Army Journal had some advice for civilians of the atomic age: "The best defense today against the atomic bomb is not to be there when it goes...