Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take me, for example. I wish I had a cross, just one cross, to bear. I was a little boy when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and when it was done and peace declared, I marched down Main Street banging on a pan with a tablespoon. I was taught in tickertape parades...
...absence of an assist from the U.S., the rebels will keep up the bombing campaign, which they hope will tell public opinion that "there is a rebel organization." Most Havana citizens, once angry at bomb terror, now seem to enjoy seeing the strongman's authority flouted, and the rebels have become expert at producing the maximum bang with minimum injury. When 90 bombs exploded in Havana a month ago, only eight people were hurt, no one killed...
Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Electronic countermeasures have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
...tapestry-lined Hall of Hercules in Munich's bomb-battered Residenz palace was packed, and the exquisite prospect of journalistic mayhem was in the air. Grim critics, with knives sharpened and hatchets drawn, were on hand to slice up youthful (31) Karl Richter, regarded by loyal fans as the greatest musical talent of his generation in Germany. Organist-Harpsichordist-Conductor Richter had committed a double crime: irreverence for the mighty Bach and the almighty critics...