Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragedy. Oh, the dismay. Oh, the blood. Oh, the anguish. When the statisticians came to put the cold figures on paper, they were as follows: as a result of one bomb-66,000 killed, 69,000 injured, 62,000 structures destroyed. That was the result of one bomb, made by man in the hope of stopping that war. Little did he realize what this thermonuclear weapon would do, and the anguish that would be brought into the hearts of men, women and children...
Where's the Bomb? Another reason for Chinese caution was the gloomy conviction that Moscow would with hold help. Warned a Communist general, "If there is a war within three to five years, we will have to rely on the weapons we now have." Today the weapons China most desperately wants -nuclear warheads-are nowhere in sight. Peking is so bitter about Moscow's reneging on its 1957 agreement to help create a Red Chinese atom bomb that it has broadcast details of the Russian about-face. Chinese physicists are now believed to be two to three years...
...mention balmy. One girl natters on about an unexploded German bomb buried in the club garden. Another dresses endlessly for an imaginary dinner date with a famous British actor. A wholesome vicar's daughter gives elocution lessons and keeps the rafters ringing at odd moments with bits of Byron and snatches of Shakespeare. "Joanna Childe," the author says, describing the girl in one of those thumbnail assessments that keep her books blessedly brief, "had a good intelligence and strong obscure emotions . . . she loved poetry rather as it might be assumed a cat loves birds...
What worked were words that touched upon wellsprings of inner life, especially fear and sex. To build a "key vocabulary," Teacher Ashton-Warner daily asked her tots, "What word do you want?" Among the words children chose: love, kiss, darling, ghost, bomb, alligator, police. Each child took home "his" word, printed on a big card, learned it without effort. Using these "one-word captions of the inner world," the kids went on to write a daily autobiographical story. Sample: "Mummie got a hiding off Daddy. He was drunk, she was crying." Or: "My Father got drunk, and He drank...
Died. Sir Charles Jocelyn Hambro, 65, chairman of London's Hambros Bank Ltd., largest commercial bank in Europe, organizer of a 1941 parachute raid on laboratories carrying out Nazi nuclear experiments in Norway, wartime courier of secrets between British and American atomic scientists developing the atom bomb, and head of British underground operations in occupied Europe, for which he was knighted; following a hemorrhage; in London...