Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story was going around London last week: two Russians were discussing World War III. Said Ivan: "By 1952 we'll have the bomb and the first thing to do will be to knock out Britain. Five bombs in five stout suitcases should do the trick-one for Liverpool, one for Manchester, one for Birmingham, and two for London...
...aged and to wipe the eyes of those who couldn't take it in the struggle of life. Now all our compromises, our sins, our apostasy are coming back to roost in one awful tide of judgment. And we are afraid of the Communists, afraid of the atomic bomb, afraid of a depression, afraid of Catholics, afraid of anything and everything fearful, afraid of God." Dr. Rutenber's remedy: to "return to God and the raw Christianity of our origins...
...wave the atomic bomb. I am the great American...
...atomic bomb, but the food crisis that may destroy us." That was the valedictory, delivered in Geneva last week, of Sir John Boyd Orr, preparing to retire as director general of U.N.'s Food & Agriculture Organization...
...with John's rich and fashionable friends. "Augustus is no snob," one of his more feline cronies once remarked. "He'd like everybody to have a title." Queen Elizabeth had had a private showing two days earlier (her wartime sittings for John were interrupted by a German bomb; she is reported to think that she has taken on a bit too much weight to have the portrait continued...