Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russians who covet the atomic bomb seemed to be able to find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...
...followers shouted a new slogan: 'Hamara atom bomb Qaid-i-Azam"-The Great Leader is our atom bomb. But the fuse was a little slow; the bomb had not gone off, and it looked at last as if India might achieve independence without civil...
...read your fortune," whined an old gypsy woman at the grandstand where bunting fluttered and only a patch of bright new brick, where a bomb had struck, recalled a recent war. In a third-tier box a discussion raged over whether to open the champagne with lunch or stick to the burgundy. "My God," said one, "the redder with lunch. The champoo afterwards...
...N.W.T., Port Hope, Ont., Chalk River, Ont. Minister Howe neatly got around the question whether civilians or the military should control atomic research. He made plain that Canada's research will be only for civilian uses. Military research presumably would be left up to Canada's atom bomb partners...
...other opinion on the atomic bomb, see RADIO; for action, NATIONAL AFFAIRS...