Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tactical Air Command should be a suitor, too, for the Voodoo could range far to help troops isolated from air bases and badly in need of rocket-bomb or atomic-bomb air support...
...those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with white hair and a pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception of a latter-day Bolshevik is nearer reality, it is due in some measure to that same pink-faced, white-haired prosecutor, Andrei Vishinsky. Before he suddenly died in the headquarters of the Soviet U.N. delegation on Manhattan's Park...
...behavior (which won him the Nobel Prize in 1938) had laid the "pile's" scientific foundations. His development work in the U.S. had built it out of theory. Now the pile was ready to go. The watchers knew that on its performance hung the success of the plutonium bomb and perhaps the outcome of World...
...great period of Communist expansion in Europe and Asia took place while we had an atomic monopoly. China was bitten off before the Soviet Union had an atomic bomb...
...insiders heard it, the invaders were going to seize five ports, border towns and airfields near them. From these bases, planes would bomb Costa Rica's defenseless capital, San José. Women in the capital would be stirred up by fifth columnists to parade hysterically to the presidential residence and demand that Figueres resign, to spare his country. His enemies hoped that he would then lose his nerve and turn over his government to a rebel junta...