Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign of terrorism." Harding cited a recent "dastardly attempt" to sabotage a British plane carrying soldiers and their families. In substantiation of Harding's charge, British troops, searching the Makarios residence after the archbishop's departure, said they had uncovered a cache of arms (one gasoline bomb, ten unfilled bombs and 18 rounds of ammunition...
...plans in case of nuclear attack to evacuate 12 million persons, shouts of "Where to?" cannoned all over the Labor side of the House. "Areas of least concentration," replied Monckton lamely. Former War Secretary John Strachey dryly reminded him that his own ministry's pamphlet showed that "a bomb dropped on Liverpool would be lethal as far as the east coast...
...novelists since Max Beerbohm seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before I see the Minister," says Pyle, after his bomb explodes, killing the wrong people...
...LONG NIGHT, by Martin Caldin (242 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $3), drops a fictional atom bomb on a U.S. industrial town and morbidly watches the gory disaster work itself out. World War III comes to Harrington, U.S.A. with a touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound...
...been seen since David O. Selznick put the Technicolor torch to Atlanta in Gone With the Wind. As the victims race through the streets, they "topple and writhe in agony in the bubbling, flaming tar." But after four days and nights, the city of Harrington has the A-bomb licked...