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Word: bombed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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While guests at the French Embassy enjoyed the Bastille Day cocktail party in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, a slow old C-47 transport plane circled the city. One of the plane doors opened and out rolled a bomb that landed harmlessly in a muddy field. It was the Honduran capital's first taste of the tragic and senseless miniwar that erupted last week between Honduras and El Salvador. At two points along the ill-defined border, Salvadoran troops pushed into Honduras, and the small air force of each country flew raids against military and industrial targets. After five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: A Population Explosion | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.). Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden deal with the Bomb in Dr. Strungelove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 11, 1969 | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...young extremists were killed the night before the ceremony when explosives that they were carrying went off near train tracks in Abergele, where the royal family passed on its way to Caernarvon. Later, the train carrying the royal entourage was halted while police checked out one of dozens of bomb threats, and hours after Charles had left the castle, a British soldier burned to death inside an army minibus that had caught fire, possibly from a bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Popular Young Lad | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

...dark side of progress is man's spectacular skill at devising better and better ways to kill other men. The nuclear bomb, unfortunately, is not the end of it. There is also chemical and biological warfare, known as CBW, a fount of doomsday weapons that the U.S. and Russia have been rapidly developing. Until recently, the docility of Congress toward Pentagon planning forestalled any real review of the hush-hush CBW program with its secret appropriations. Now, prompted by press reports and rumors, emboldened by the general concern over U.S. military policy, congressional investigators are demanding answers from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DILEMMA OF CHEMICAL WARFARE | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...eyes of its members, who have lately begun to feel martyred and somewhat paranoic, the worst of it all is the heavy pressure now being applied against the organization. Police and FBI informants have infiltrated many campus chapters. S.D.S. militants at Columbia and Dartmouth have been jailed; narcotics and bomb-plot charges have been brought against members in New York, Colorado and Pennsylvania. In recent months, six of S.D.S.'s twelve regional offices have been vandalized and files burned or stolen. Four different congressional committees have announced plans to investigate the group. The growing official hostility partly explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Splintered S.D.S. | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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