Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered Reynolds fired. Walter Rundle, China bureau chief at Shanghai, flew to Peiping to break the news. The U.P. was fed up with such Packard specials as the Russian "evacuation" of Dairen last fall, the "human-headed spider" he discovered near Peiping, and the discovery of a Russian atomic bomb plant on Lake Baikal...
...still do staff work. Above all, he could still carry a briefcase. On July 20, 1944, he carried a briefcase into a conference at the Führer's field headquarters in East Prussia. He put it down close to the Führer-with a powerful little bomb inside...
Stauffenberg, the man chosen to do the dirty work, had tried at least twice before to kill Hitler. Other plotters had also tried. In March 1943, one almost succeeded by wrapping up a bomb and planting it in Hitler's airplane. The plane took off with Hitler aboard, but arrived at its destination safely. Reason: the bomb's firing pin had tripped, but the percussion...
Mayor J. C. Trahan, who wears a purple heart for buzz bomb wounds received in Belgium, said "no buzz bomb could ever compare with what happened here today. It is such a terrific tragedy that the people have not been able to realize what happened...
...time when the big stick has become an atom bomb, it is dangerous for the United States to lump foreign policy and domestic political-economic problems together in one pocket. We have been doing just that regarding our relations with the Soviet Union and with home-baked Communists. America may oppose Russian expansion towards the Dardanelles or Middle East oil, but we cannot do so simply because Russia is a Communist state and we dislike the American Communists. Similarly, it is a fallacy to oppose American Communists simply because we disapprove of Russian foreign policy...