Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evacuated, buses were stopped. Sick animals from the People's Dispensary had been moved to a safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad successfully took the the surface. The 2,775-lb. bomb was second largest ever dug up in London. Seven years ago during a bad raid...
...secret uranium was once an innocent element, mined chiefly for the cancer-treating radium associated with it. Before the atom bomb, no nation bothered to be secretive about its uranium resources. Even the U.S.S.R. described in detail the deposits found within its boundaries...
...Muyun in the Fergana Valley of Central Asia, 200 miles east of Tashkent -where a mine was opened in 1908. By the end of 1913, it had produced 1,044 tons of ore containing vanadium, copper and about .82% of uranium. At 26 pounds of U-235 per atom bomb (a current guess), this early production could have yielded theoretically enough "fissionable material" for four bombs. The Tyuya Muyun mine was still producing in 1936, when it (and some radioactive waters near Ukhta) yielded enough radium for Soviet needs...
...week's end, more rioting had broken out in Johannesburg, where someone tossed a bomb into an Indian shop. In Durban, things had grown quiet enough for officials to have a look-around. Amid the bloodstained and ash-strewn debris, they put the cost at more than $1,000,000 worth of destroyed property, 1,000 injured and 300-odd killed. In all the misery brought on, however indirectly, by the grasping and oppressive hand of the master race, only one white man had died...
Then Mr. Truman exploded a bomb in the State Department which would cause vibrations not only on the Hill, but around the capital and in all the capitals of the world. He announced the resignation of faithful, forceful George Catlett Marshall, and nominated as his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson...