Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rumored drill, a practice safety measure for protection against a hydrogen bomb attack, would have evicted students from the banks of the Charles. Others would have been forced to postpone exams to a future date...
...Republicans were handed a time bomb when they entered office and had to spend the first two years simply putting out the brush fires of their predecessors," Benson added...
Concealed Weapons. Blond, blue-eyed Father Mario Borelli, 35, son of a Neapolitan sheet-metal worker, began his ministry in 1945 preaching to factory workers. Four years later, assigned to the city's youth, he got permission to use Naples' 500-year-old, bomb-blasted Church of Mater Dei as a meeting place. He set up an organization of young workers, but the youth that interested him most were the scugnizzi...
...Liberation Day, in the Communist lingo of East Berlin-and the town was tricked up with solemn-sloganed streamers. "Forward to Peace, Socialism and Understanding Between Peoples" fluttered from the Institute for Planned Economy. "Forward, Not to the Atom Bomb, But to Peace" waved in the breeze over Stalin Allee.* Few stopped to read. Small boys careered through the streets on their bicycles. Crowds surged along the sidewalks searching for vantage points. Any minute the "Peace Race" bicycle riders would pump into view. Any lap of the 1,330-mile grind from Warsaw to Berlin to Prague, Iron Curtain counterpart...
...them who could place in the first 30 in the Tour de France," grumbled a Munich sports editor last week. But, wherever they came from, the cyclists, at least, took the race seriously. And their determination was, as usual, sufficient to make the competition for a big bomb-shaped "peace" cup something less than pacific...