Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Village Shelters. As a halfway measure, Lebanon's army began training border-village leaders in firearms, and announced that it is building concrete bomb shelters. They are not likely to be enough. Israel has repeatedly warned that Lebanon will be held responsible for any raids from its territory by Arab fedayeen. That policy plays into the guerrillas' hands, since they are determined to enlist Lebanon, willingly or not, in their cause...
...bomb in a Tel Aviv bus depot, an explosion in a Jerusalem marketplace, the shoot-up of an airliner in Athens, raids, raids and more raids on villages, continued vilification and threats-all these and other incidents apparently make the world more interesting. The U.S. State Department ignores these offenses, or at most sounds a mild "tut-tut." The U.N. does the same. However, an Israeli reprisal, designed to tone down the level of warlike activity on the part of the Arabs, generates storms of protest. The greatest protest is raised not because lives are lost but because Israel destroyed...
...sleeves of the astronauts' blue flight coveralls, to shake their hands and to ask for autographs. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders were clearly moved by the heroes' reception. "At 2 in the morning," said Borman, "I simply expected to get in my old blue bomb [his 1955 Chevrolet] and go home...
...full of echoes from the author's literary heroes, T. S. Eliot, Proust and Truman Capote. There are also resonances from Joseph Heller. One can imagine Heller's Captain Yossarian, sitting up there in the sky, cursing the night, as the U.S. Air Force drops a bomb in the garden that Arlecq recollects from his own childhood. "It is still a good eight weeks till Easter," Fries writes, "but Arlecq's uncle in America has sent this early Easter...
What the Christmas moonshot tells us is that we are pressing forward into space. Like the invention of electricity and the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima, the moonshot is one of those dramatic events that reminds us that the conditions of our lives are always changing. Our civilizations, like a rain-muddied road under the feet of a retreating Union army, is having its very nature reshaped...