Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less preparation than it takes to get a family of four off on a beach expedition, Her Majesty's Government sets out to fire a rocketship past the pull of earth's gravity, and at the same time touch off the world's first T-1 bomb, which is too big to be exploded on earth. A girl reporter (Lois Maxwell, about the only structurally sound object in Satellite) stows away on the unguarded vessel...
Otherwise, Satellite is rocketshipshape with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...
...soldier's only surviving name is "Old Cock," and his last surviving grip on Britain's economy is a job as curator of a rubbish dump in London's bombed-out East End. Slightly addled but still marvelously eloquent after his life in the trenches, Old Cock has one friend, known only as "Arp" (from the initials on his Air Raid Precautions uniform jacket). A bomb had deprived Arp of everything -house, family, name, memory and speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday...
...Penn State and Army All-America football back who scored six touchdowns and six extra points in seven games against Navy, retired from the U.S. Air Force. He was assistant deputy chief of staff for operations of the Continental Air Command, and in World War II commanded the 42nd Bomb Group...
...shaped aircraft expected to fly 1,500 m.p.h. In Korea, where he won the Canadian Press Board Award for foreign correspondence, he was lost for four days behind enemy lines. In Indo-China, where the French "were so disorganized they let me fly their planes," a cyclist threw a bomb under the restaurant table that he was sharing with three officials...