Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goodness' Sake." Did he agree with a Senate subcommittee report that U.S. vulnerability to Soviet attack "has increased greatly during the past decade"? "The vulnerability of any nation is probably greater than it ever was because one bomb today can do the damage of probably all that we dropped on Germany in World War II. But ... we have in all fields of the military activity, developed our weapons, our weapons systems, our doctrine, our plans and our equipment to the point, I think, where relatively we are in as good a position as we have ever been in time...
...living room of the parsonage at 309 South Jackson Street. Coretta heard a thud on the porch and thought it was a brick, nothing particularly frightening around the King home during that period. She and the friend moved to a back room to continue their conversation-and a dynamite bomb went off, filling the vacant living room with a hail of broken glass...
...Long Way to Go. At first, integrated buses on night runs were sporadically peppered with shotgun blasts. Then things seemed to quiet down. It was a false quiet. One night last month the stillness was shattered by a series of dynamite blasts. A bomb exploded outside the home of the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Negro pastor of the First Baptist Church, who has subordinated his own admitted ambitions for leadership to become King's strong, trusted right hand. Another bomb ripped into the home of a special object of white venom: the Rev. Robert Graetz, white pastor...
...Atomic Energy Commission was flying captive balloons last week over its Nevada test site. Magnesium flares, burned at varying altitudes, would simulate atom bombs and indicate how high a bomb could be exploded without blinding auto drivers on the highways of southern Nevada...
Sandys' statement, coupled with previous government announcements, clearly meant Britain now is poised for an initial test of her own hydrogen bomb...