Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with so much "preaching" that they have made themselves "detested" round the world. The U.S., he said, is overemphasizing the military side of its policy, and so letting the Communists steal peace as a weapon of propaganda. From the time both the U.S. and Russia exploded the H-bomb, Mollet has "never believed" in the threat of a major Soviet attack, and in his opinion the position the U.S., Britain and France took at Geneva last summer, in putting German reunification ahead of disarmament...
When U.S. nuclear sleuths, cruising in airplanes off the coast of northeast Asia, pick up radioactive dust from Soviet bomb tests, they give out no information whatever. Russian and British airborne atomic detectives are just as uncommunicative. But the Japanese, sitting innocently bombless between Soviet and U.S. test areas, can talk freely. Last week Dr. Yoshio Sugiura of the government's Meteorological Research Institute told a Kyoto meeting of the Japan Chemistry Society what he had deduced from "ashes of death" that fell in his own backyard...
Order of Bottle. In Seattle, Zumie Davis was fined $200 for illegally selling liquor, despite his explanation that the 41 fifths of whisky and 24 pints of wine found in his bedroom were to be used only in case of an A-bomb attack...
...overage World War II pencil-type detonator, which works by acid eating through metal and is normally timed to explode about twelve hours after setting, had taken around twice that time to work. Informed of the bomb, Harding mused: "That's funny. I slept better than usual last night." He added dryly: "I'm told there's a story-of a princess who couldn't sleep for a pea under her mattress. It puzzles...
Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...