Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disarmament measures had to be subject to foolproof inspection and controls to be safe, worthwhile and acceptable to the U.S. As he and his predecessors had done for 10½ years, Soviet First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov countered with the usual propaganda talk about disarming and banning the bomb, with no assurances about foolproof inspection and controls-an attitude Lodge termed "bitterly discouraging...
...bright California morning last week, bomb-shaped General Curtis Emerson LeMay, boss of the Strategic Air Command, landed at March Air Force Base near Riverside, stepped off the ramp, glanced at his watch, then stared dourly at the calm, brilliant sky, and waited. Soon three big, eight-jet B-52 SAC bombers streaked into view in tight formation, peeled off and landed a minute apart, their huge brake parachutes billowing from their tails. Throttled down, the planes sedately taxied two miles to the base-operations building, their high-pitched, throbbing scream searing the air. Then, abruptly, the planes were silent...
WEST GERMANY The third Man In West Germany, this is an election year, and the telltale signs could already be detected up and down the Rhine. That rugged defender of NATO, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, battling fiercely for a third term at 81, called for a ban on the H-bomb without even mentioning safeguards, and labeled the Soviet plan to pull troops out of Central Europe a helpful step to reduce international tensions. Out to prove his "flexibility" in the cause of German reunification, the Chancellor invited the Russians to hold trade talks with West Germany, but also was hoping...
Although Griffin belittled the possibility. the only plausible medical explanation of his case was that his blindness had been mainly, if not entirely, hysterical, i.e., brought on by the emotional shock of bomb blasts. Dissolution of a longstanding blood clot could not explain his recovery, as such a clot would soon have caused irreparable damage to the eye's nerves. Seeing his wife and children for the first time, he said: "They are more beautiful than I ever suspected ... I am astonished, stunned and thankful...
...Died. John Gilbert (Jack) Graham, 24, moody gadgeteer who blew up 44 people, including his mother, aboard a United Air Lines DC-6B northbound from Denver on Nov. 1, 1955, with a dynamite time bomb he planted in his mother's luggage in the hope of collecting $37,500 in flight-insurance money; by the judgment of his peers (cyanide gas poisoning); in the gas chamber at the Colorado Penitentiary, Canon City. Fatalist Graham's observation before he was executed: "As far as feeling remorse for those people, I don't. I can't help...