Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This spring formation flights over Moscow of Russian intercontinental jet bomb ers startled the Air Force into a second look at the jet fighters scheduled to take over U.S. air defense in the next few years. Last week a new production sched ule for Air Force supersonic fighters was revealed...
...outrages can be attributed." In Casablanca, suspects were hustled to police headquarters with paper bags over their heads to conceal their identities. Members of the gang had reportedly confessed to participating in 80 "incidents," including the burning of an Arab market, the murder of several Arab farmers, and bomb attacks on local Frenchmen...
...abandon the government this very day were I not fortified by the loyalty of the people and of my comrades in the army," declaimed Juan Perón last week. It was, perhaps unconsciously, a rather accurate statement of his position a week after the navy-managed attempt to bomb him to death and take over his government. Perón's top army officers, after some doubtful days, had stayed loyal; his labor-union support, though less important in this crisis than the army's backing, had hardly wavered. At week's end the Argentine dictator...
Market Up. Already the bomb craters in the Plaza de Mayo were filled in and paved over. The jittery stock market picked up. The Colon opera house found the tension relaxed enough to present Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which sings of a French revolutionary's doomed, gallant fight for what many Argentines still wish they had: liberty. By midweek the army troops who had occupied central Buenos Aires were back in their barracks, and General Lucero publicly handed back the special "repression" powers that for another, more ambitious man might have been an admirable springboard to total power...
...originate in rare solar "flares," but most of them come from farther space. The fastest particles pack an enormous punch, up to 1016 ev (10 million billion electron volts) of energy. To accelerate a flea to this speed, said Neher, would require all the energy released by a hydrogen bomb...