Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed over for promotion from colonel to brigadier general last spring-despite the Senator's persistent efforts on his behalf. Last week, when the promotions of eight other reserve colonels came up for approval by the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Smith quickly zoomed in to skip-bomb the biggest target in sight: lanky Cinemactor James Stewart...
...HYDROGEN BOMB-Das Eargeschplitten Laudenboomer mit ein grosse Holengraund und Alles kaput...
Sergeant Werner Stephan, 40, was one cop whom West Berliners really liked. For twelve years, as the city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous job-defusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered...
After ten years of planning and $250 million for tooling, Ford Motor Co. put its long-awaited Edsel on display this week. The first new "Big Three" car since Ford brought out the Mercury in 1938 is a recognizable Ford product without radical jetlike fins or bomb-shaped bumpers. Like Ford and Mercury, it presents a squarish appearance with a flat rear deck, horizontal taillights that flare up and out, an oval, uncluttered grille reminiscent of the elegant Cord of the '30s. Under its hood is a burly engine turning up 303 h.p. in the less expensive models...
Limited war, Kissinger maintains, need not lead either to all-out H-bomb war or to stalemate; linked with diplomacy, it strives for specific political gains. For every new Communist aggression, it promises a punishing limited setback, a setback that the enemy will reluctantly accept because the loss is not worth the risk of starting the all-out war. Thus the strategy of ambiguity and the burden of decision for risking total war are turned on the enemy; either he must settle for setback or risk the certain destruction that would come with all-out war. Thus the small inroads...