Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incoming traffic will be halted during the practice, Burke said, and all outgoing vehicles will be encouraged to pick up pedestrians along the way. Final destinations of the exodus are rural areas far enough from Greater Boston to insure safety from H-bomb effects...
...pressures of his academic load lead the Tech student to release himself in a more spectacular manner. Last May, for example, a water fight broke out between two fraternities and broke out between two fraternities and ended up in a riot. A District Judge, almost hit by a water bomb, called the police, and before the excitement was over 47 M.I.T. men had been arrested...
While not daily occurences, such pranks seem to recur more often than at Harvard. When asked why, some students say that academic pressures build up to the point where they "just have to go out and throw a water bomb." An interesting thesis advanced by another is that pranks are merely "an attempt to show the rest of the world that we're really human beings...
...Lost Generation, I thank you for the article. I feel more strongly than ever that the force causing my generation to join churches, nurse our babies (indeed, have them at all!) and raise little vegetable gardens in our subdivision rectangles is not nearly so much dread of The Bomb as retreat from the dank void of Godless intellectualism that shrouded us Depression babies, and that Mencken symbolized...
...country is in trouble." On the outlook for peace: "We are spending $40 billion a year for peace, and there is none. Our situation is more perilous than ever . . . While the President smiles, the hatchetmen smear; while the President talks earnestly of peace, the Secretary of State brandishes the bomb and threatens atomic...