Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, said Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby last week, the latest U.S. H-bomb tests have helped to develop a weapon with a lower rate of fallout contamination...
...left-wing viewers-with-alarm begged Harry Truman to stow the A-bomb away in the national attic. The Russians, they said, could not possibly develop the bomb for at least a decade. Truman refused -and the Soviet Union, depending heavily on Joseph Stalin's army of scientists and his very effective spies, came forth with the atomic bomb in 1949. Again, the hand-wringers pleaded with Truman not to go ahead with the H-bomb. Truman did go ahead-and because he did, the U.S. got under the wire by a few short months and escaped the earth...
...Stevenson who did most of the talking,* and the farther he traveled, the harder he hit. And the harder he hit, the better the spirited audiences seemed to like it. The President, he told a capacity house in the Seattle auditorium, responded to his own suggestion that the H-bomb tests be curbed with "sneers and astonishing distortion of what I said." In Oakland he added: "I'll let the [American people] judge whether it is a 'theatrical gesture' ... to suggest a safe way to end the deadly competition to build and explode H-bombs...
...Aging President." Between his H-bomb blasts, the candidate kept up his tough-talking attack on the G.O.P., Ike and Dick Nixon. Four years ago, he said, the Republicans promised "not to turn back the clock. They haven't, but they haven't wound it in four years either." Then, on the eve of the President's 66th birthday, Stevenson, 56, yanked Ike's age into the campaign in a manner to take the breath of the most impassioned Nixon critic. Said Adlai in San Diego: Dwight Eisenhower has given up trying to reshape his party...
Sharper Needles. Was it true that Adlai Stevenson, with his end-the-draft and stop-H-bomb-tests appeals, had beat the G.O.P. to a similar campaign punch? Said Ike: "You are telling me things about my Administration that I have never heard of. and I am quite sure no one has come up and suggested to me that we eliminate the draft . . . Now I tell you frankly I have said my last words on these subjects...