Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such reasoning is less typical of Kissinger's thought than of the policies against which he inveighs, but it does stand behind him, like Herblock's H-bomb, casting a shadow of urgency on much that he says. It would be unfair to characterize Kissinger as a man in terror of his own viewpoint. Whether or not his programs are useful, he performs a valuable service in his general analysis, which he himself considers more important than the specifics. If only in disabusing liberals of Polyanna attitudes, he justifies himself with a clear and often unarguable description of the alternatives...
...African deserts, where they maintain their winter breeding reservoirs. Another is that they breed somewhere along the way, so that only later generations ever reach England. In last week's Nature, Geneticist H.B.D. Kettlewell of Oxford offered strong proof for the direct-from-Africa theory-using an atom bomb explosion to trace the flight of the gentle moth...
Running the house, once a good enough home but now much the worse for bomb damage, is Dan, an ex-navyman who is good at repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices...
Overheard in the Union: "Okay, this is the problem. An atomic bomb falls on a desert island, killing all the inhabitants instantaneously. From a philosophical point of view, does it create a sound...
Professor Homer set forth a brief analysis of how the modern historian employs mythical research element. Distinguishing between scientifically stimulating myth" and "improbable religious myth" he scoffed at the folk tale of all the animals descended from a male and female of each species set aside in a special bomb shelter during these prehistoric times. He also questioned the religious doctrine that the basic freezing, and radioactive crust represents God's place of punishment...