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Word: bombings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, the Air Force answer was blunt: there was no reason for a second strategic air arm when its land-based 6-365 could already deliver bomb loads to any spot in the world. Besides, the airmen pointed out, the Navy could not land its heavy bombers once they had taken off. In the Air Force view, the supercarrier was a needlessly expensive duplication which could not complete its mission without the help of Air Force landing fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Victory Roll | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Lucrative Target. There was one other point that even Navy airmen found hard to dispute. No matter how successful the supercarrier was, one torpedo spread or a single bomb attack might put it out of action, and the United States would be the fattest target an enemy could wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Victory Roll | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...story focuses on a small and successful part of the revolution. Garfield leads a band of Cubans in an intricate maneuver aimed at blowing up the president, vice-president, cabinet, and all the key officials with one bomb. The audience is constantly reminded that the government is extremely evil and that dynamiting its leaders is indeed an act of glorious patriotism...

Author: By Edward J. Sack, | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the lips; withal a perfect demeanour"; the dispossessed in the bombed-out ruins of Peckham, whose cheerful fortitude brought tears to the Prime Minister's eyes. The web's perimeter, the deep-indented, 2,000-mile British coastline, is rounded off by the unsleeping, patrolling navy, evoking from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...square feet of glass have been destroyed up to date?"; "Surely you can run to a new Admiralty flag. It grieves me to see the present dingy object every morning." And, as a final touch to the whole figure, there is the Churchill whose mind remembers Virgil when a bomb strikes London's Carlton Club, rendezvous of generations of Conservative politicians. Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Web & the Weaver | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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