Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the reception the delegates will devote the remaining six days to discussion. Some of the topics will be internationalization of the atomic bomb, federal aid to education, aiding of exchange students, relief for foreign students, and formulating American plans for international student organization...
Coincident with the fourth atomic bomb blast on this planet, Cambridge was rocked by a major quake of its own. Late Sunday evening, Mike's Club announced the famous 15 cent frappe would cost 20 cents. For 24 critical hours, while public opinion massed solidly behind the frappe, this institution, which cost your fathers 15 cents, your grandfathers 15 Confederate you, and your great-grandfathers 15 wisps of golden grain, seemed destined for history. On Monday afternoon the bells tolled. The frappe had returned to 15 cents...
...Bomb Prelim (Sun. 3, 6, 8, 11:15 p.m., all networks). CBS Correspondent Bill Downs, from an observation plane, covers the proceedings at Bikini...
Blast Shock. Last week Professor Einstein seemed suffering from blast shock from the bomb he had fathered. In the New York Times he warned Americans that "There is no foreseeable defense against atomic bombs. . . . Scientists do not even know of any field which promises us any hope of adequate defense." The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, of which Einstein is chairman, frantically appealed for $200,000 to educate people to "a new type of thinking ... if mankind is to survive and move toward a higher level...
Mankind, in general less apocalyptic, scarcely knew what to think or do. Most of them were inclined to accept the bomb stolidly-like an earthquake, an act of God. Few were even yet willing to accept Oswald Spengler's bracing pessimism about the age: "There is no question of prudent retreat or wise renunciation. Only dreamers believe that there is a way out. Optimism is cowardice." But there was a growing sense that the Brothers de Goncourt had been grimly farsighted when they wrote in their Journal...