Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
India is still capable of some strangely irrational attitudes, notably in the U.N., where Nehru's delegates still urge an immediate, uninspected, unenforceable nuclear test ban. Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon argues that Khrushchev was forced into the new Russian bomb tests by the U.S., an attitude that U.S. Delegate Arthur H. Dean acidly describes as pro-Soviet neutralism. In view of Menon's rantings, the U.S. particularly wants to explain to Nehru the military realities in Laos and South Viet...
With broad sarcasm, Pravda Columnist S. Vishnevsky dismissed the budding U.S. atom-bomb shelter program. "If we could only open the eyes of those moles." he wrote recently, "they would surely see that there is no sense in hiding underground. But moles are unseeing creatures and moles of bourgeois origin suffer from class blindness." The sneer was less than convincing, for the writer must have known what most of the U.S. does not: the Soviet Union has been at work for more than a decade on a shelter program of its own, spending an estimated $500 million a year (current...
...lack of a crisis atmosphere, plus Russian reliance on the fact that the U.S. will not engage in a surprise attack, thinks Gouré, accounts for the absence of bomb shelter signs on buildings. "Because they believe they will have more time before attack than we," he says, "they have planned for putting up such signs during a long-range alert. The shelters are there, but they aren't posted. During my trip, I asked a man in Stalingrad about a vented block of unmarked concrete sticking out of the sidewalk. 'Ah,' he said with a shrug...
Nkrumah's cleanup is only a cover-up for Ghana's woes. Paced by left-wing extremists, Ghana is racing toward dictatorship and bankruptcy. Opposition to the regime has become explosive. Last week bomb blasts shattered Osagyefo's 1½ times life-size statue outside Parliament...