Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smiting the wicked became a habit. During World War II, he wrote a letter warning Japanese Emperor Hirohito: "Surrender or be totally annihilated and become extinct." Three months later the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. As Father Divine put it: "Things just don't happen. Things happen just...
...crowds danced in the streets at the rumor of Indian victories. As antiaircraft guns in Amritsar opened up on Pakistani planes, citizens cheered each white puff in the blue sky, shouting "Shoot him down! Kill him! Kill, kill, kill!" Workmen put up baffle walls in offices as protection against bomb blast, shopkeepers pasted strips of paper to window panes, husbands and fathers dug slit trenches outside their homes. As hospitals were hurriedly emptied to provide beds for expected wounded, Indians queued up to donate blood. The capital's mood was reflected by a businessman who said, "We've been kicked...
...that is, an impression of "a decaying everywhere." Says he: "Society is so confused. There are triple roadblocks and detours wherever you go, and no one knows which road to travel." Viet Nam? "I know we have to stay there, but I don't know why particularly." The Bomb? "It's like a cloud hanging over me all the time...
...cameras photograph Ho Chi Minh's missile sites. Its sensitive in struments help police to identify paint smears on hit-and-run victims, enable conservationists to check traces of water pollution in fish. Its products helped in the creation of the first atomic bomb, also made possible the production of synthetic penicillin and vitamin B12. All of these tasks-and many more- are the business of a little-known Connecticut company named Perkin-Elmer Corp., one of the fastest growing members of the fast-growing scientific instrument industry. Variety has paid well for Perkin-Elmer: last week it reported...
...last, perking up enough to look defeated, he recites his efforts to Strike Back: "I wrote Rx on windows of Christian Science Reading Rooms, sent calendars to lifers, scrawled the Star of David on Volkswagens. I carried placards, BAN THE BOMB, BRING BACK