Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each of the three completed pads forming the base's Launch Complex 65-1, a twelve-story-high missile nestled in its gantry. Two more of the 200-ton silvery rockets, painted for the first time with the SAC insignia, lay in reserve, their H-bomb war heads stored near by, ready for installation in brief minutes. After five test flops followed by four successes in a row at Cape Canaveral, the U.S.'s prime weapon of deterrence seemed ready at last to serve Vandenberg's twin functions as an operational base for the launching of ICBMs...
...tightly encircled by adhesive tape. The plump, balding King, 63, and his handsome queen, 55, decided they could not wait for the unsealing, and left to meet with Cambodia's delegation to the United Nations. They had scarcely reached the reception hall when the palace trembled as a bomb blasted the room they had just been in. Prince Vakrivan was blown apart; a palace servant was killed and four others seriously wounded...
...salary of $20,160 a year. German-born, British-trained, with unique experience in his field, he was the obvious man for the job: Communist Spy Klaus Emil Fuchs, 47, onetime head of the theoretical physics department at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, who slipped atom-bomb secrets to Russian agents, was caught and imprisoned in 1950. Released 2½ months ago, Fuchs flew to East Berlin, was made a citizen of East Germany almost as soon as the wheels hit the runway...
...Bomb thy BOOM His tomb...
...Bomb I love...