Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.).* Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Stanley Kubrick's outrageously wild but sobering satire about nuclear war. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens...
...Congressmen, watching the swing to the right among the home voters, have lost much of their ardor for further federal civil rights legislation. Those guiding welfare bills through the House watched helplessly as the inevitable budget cuts took alarmingly large chunks out of their appropriations. Then, in June, the bomb fell. Guided by Congressman Jamie Whitten of Mississippi, the House came within inches of saddling an $18 billion HEW bill with a rider that threatened to return school desegregation efforts to the medieval...
...strike in a situation like this is like an atom bomb," Sullivan said. "As soon as you drop it the threat is gone. The important thing is to exploit the threat...
...students and the rise of Nazi Germany, Oppenheimer became too suddenly a social activist, naively lending his support to Communist as well as liberal causes. By the time the U.S. entered World War II, however, Oppenheimer had become disenchanted with Communism. Called upon to head the Los Alamos atom-bomb laboratory after a brilliant teaching career at Berkeley, he turned to his new assignment with ferocious energy, wasting away to 116 Ibs., but performing what even his enemies admit was a "magnificent" job in producing a workable bomb...
After the war, Oppenheimer remained an adviser to the Atomic Energy Commission and argued fruitlessly against the creation of the H-bomb, insisting that it would only stimulate the Russians into building one too. In the hysterical climate of the early 1950s, his anti-H-bomb stand and his well-known earlier association with Communists led to the lifting of his security clearance. In the celebrated 1954 hearing that followed, the AEC refused to reinstate his clearance but made it clear that it was not questioning his loyalty, only his veracity, conduct and associations...