Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomb bay was closed. In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle. As Major Woodrow P. Swancutt pushed the throttles all the way forward, a rainbow shone overhead. Dave's Dream gathered speed, then rose slowly into the easterly wind...
Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
Through it all, announcers asked listeners to concentrate on the tick of a metronome placed before an open microphone on the abandoned Pennsylvania. When the ticking stopped, it would be because the bomb had gone off, and the microphone with...
Long Live the Bomb! The Sunday of voting was preceded by a week of bitterness, guerrilla battles and bloodshed. Extreme rightist bands circulated typewritten leaflets: "Long live the atom bomb, Poland's ultimate guarantee of freedom!" The Communists retaliated by displaying large posters showing a gorilla-like German soldier above the caption: "If you want him back, vote no." Other posters showed Winston Churchill squeezing a rubber doll (Mikolajczyk) and making it cry "No!" The Red humorists found other weapons too. On the eve of the referendum, Mikolajczyk announced that 1,213 of his party officials had been arrested...
...Bogotá last week a sewer explosion sent Colombians to their knees in supplication. They thought it was The Bomb. Almost everywhere else in the hemisphere, the rumble of politics and the rattle of poker chips drowned out Bikini's blast. Democrats shouted, and dictators swung their whips. Strong men gambled for high stakes and played penny ante on the side...