Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking power is so great. Used to big numbers, they dismiss De Gaulle's force as being less than 2% of the striking power of U.S. missiles and aircraft. But at that, De Gaulle's Mirage IV and Etendard IV planes will carry 50-kiloton bombs-more than twice the power of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima. As part of McNamara's conviction that the manned bomber will soon be obsolete, De Gaulle's force will be out of date before it is active-but McNamara will find argument inside his own Pentagon on that point...
...Alice K. Smith, a Radcliffe Institute scholar writing a history of the development of the atomic bomb, claimed that if a working mother could not have the best of both worlds, "she can have the best of one and as much as possible of the other." She protested against "the tyranny of housework," but noted that she was "not suggesting you live your life in Bohemian squalor...
...conclusion of Wang's opening remarks, however, the hall was cleared temporarily because of a bomb scare. The bomb was advertised to go off at 9 p.m., and at 9:10 the audience filed back in to hear the rest of the speech...
There was no shortage of problems. In Moscow, dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared, "France must sign." fully aware that De Gaulle has no intention of joining a test ban. Another question was how to ring in Red China, which is expected to explode an A-bomb by year's end. Since Peking had not yet done so, Gromyko said, the problem was "artificial." Anxious to keep the talks going. U.S. officials grasped at straws -and hopeful phrases. "I don't think this closes the door," said one. "It's just atmospheric noise...
...suspected; elected officials may be involved. The press takes up the hue and cry, and the police grill two officials of the companies interested. They refuse to talk. Released, one of them commits suicide, and the other disappears and is presumed dead. But he is dangerously alive: a bomb in the hands of an almost insanely angry young man (Toshiro Mifune) who has sworn to avenge the murder of his father by the corporation. By a ruthless ruse-he has married the boss's daughter-the young man has placed himself inside the enemy's defenses...