Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harbor, water skiing, yachting and bikini bathing went on unabated last week. The curfew's chief effect on the diplomatic set was to move up cocktail parties from 7 to 5, and to make luncheons more popular than dinner parties. Diners stopped rushing out for a look when bombs went off, merely glanced at their watches so that they could see which bomb it was in the newspaper next morning. Daily papers printed want ads for apartments "in the calmest quarter of Beirut," as well as the broadcast times and wave lengths for three rebel radio stations that...
...night of Tishah Beab-when Jews lament the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70 by Roman legions under the future Emperor Titus-a bomb shattered Buenos Aires' Knesset Israel Synagogue. After that 1947 bombing, Head Rabbi Guillermo Schlesinger wandered in the rubble and said aloud: "What have I done? Why was the house of the Lord profaned?" A black-robed figure stepped forward and answered: "Prejudice, hate and ignorance have struck." His hand outstretched, Father Carlos Cucchetti added: "I come to offer you my sympathy." Replied the Rabbi : "I shall never forget your kindness...
...night eight years later, during Dictator Juan Perón's church-burning war on Catholicism, the same bomb-hurling gangs switched from Jews to Catholics, beat up friars (one was killed) and tried to catch anti-Peronista Father Cucchetti. To his hiding place came a friendly visitor-Rabbi Schlesinger. By last week their friendship had resulted in Latin America's first interfaith union: Movimiento de Confraternidad Judeo-Christian...
...some trials in Tvilisi, Zorza concluded that onetime Premier Malenkov was in trouble-a full 16 months before he was relieved as Minister of Electric Power Stations and relegated to a job in remote Kazakhstan. In April 1957, one year before the Russians announced their unilateral suspension of A-bomb tests, Zorza ran a story from a Communist diplomatic source, reporting that Moscow was consulting its satellites about its plans to try this gambit...
...nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...