Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monarchy, Germans, capitalism, Dutch society in general, and had a number of ingenious notions about how to louse up the official rites. They talked of spiking the city's water supply with LSD, hiring a frogman to emerge from a canal near the parade route and explode a bomb containing anti-Orange leaflets, even releasing a pack of white mice to stampede the horses drawing the princess' seven-ton golden wedding coach...
...Spain to make the first statement. Spain held off, nervously uncertain of what to say. Finally, last week-some 44 days after the event-the two countries officially announced what the whole world had been discussing for the past six weeks: that the U.S. had indeed misplaced one H-bomb...
...nuke was one of four that fell over southern Spain Jan. 17, when a U.S. Air Force B-52 collided with a refueling tanker. The first three bombs -and four crew members-were quickly recovered. The fourth bomb was still missing. Though the bombs were unarmed and protected by radiation-proof shields, the U.S. was understandably anxious to get them all back. To that end, seven hundred U.S. airmen, soldiers, civilian technicians and Spanish troops were scouring a ten-sq.-mi. coastal area near Palomares, and 16 ships-including three deep-sea subs-were combing the ocean floor. All they...
...bomb that was still missing, the searchers seemed prepared to continue the hunt indefinitely. Was there a chance its radioactive contents were leaking into Spain's coastal waters? With Spain's big tourist season about to begin, it was a horrifying thought. U.S. Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke's duty was clear. To prove the safety of Spanish shores, he made a date with Spain's Information and Tourism Minister to take a chilly 59° F. Mediterranean dip this week-with their wives and children-in the water off Palomares...
...dark breed that has been operating as "black humorists," an easily applied label that sticks to those who examine the megaton-megalopolis age and find it funny only in a fearsome way. In Catch-22, now a classic of its genre, Joseph Heller presents an American pilot who would bomb his country's bases for "cost"plus 6%." In Stem, Bruce Jay Friedman deflates the American concept of the hero by making his anti-hero a round-shouldered, wide-hipped urban Jew helpless to handle his neighbors, his job or even his flirtatious wife ("I saw a kiss...