Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crucial moment of the revolt came early next morning. Shawaf sent two young pilots in old piston-engined Furies to bomb Radio Baghdad's transmitting station twelve miles north of the capital. They did little damage. But four Iraqi air force planes loyal to Kassem counterattacked Shawaf's top headquarters on a bluff above Mosul. First they bombed it and then came in low to strafe. Six or seven officers were killed. Shawaf, wounded, staggered out of his command post, trying to bandage himself. One of his sergeants, figuring the game was up, finished him off with machine...
...Quake. It was no accident that this repressive law was modified in the year of the great Tokyo earthquake. A current Japanese joke says it took an earthquake to start the emancipation of women, and the atom bomb to set it going again. The 1923 temblor destroyed 60% of the city, killed 143,000 people and ruined many of Tokyo's upper and middle classes. In its aftermath, the educated daughters of these families (education for women dates from the Meiji Restoration in the 19th century) discarded their kimonos, bobbed their hair, donned Western dress and became sales clerks...
...Japan, house wives go in for cooking classes, sewing circles, charity drives. Wives can also be militant, and have often backed their husbands in strikes by bullying shopkeepers into advancing credit, badgering government officials and forming picket lines. The women of Japan are fiercely antiwar, anti-rearmament, anti-H-bomb...
...incident revealed that1) the U.S. had prudently installed a system to check incoming travelers for radioactive material; 2) nuclear bomb tests have left enough radioactive debris in the atmosphere to contaminate high-flying planes. Pan Am's 707 had been flying at about 35,000 ft., and the radioactive particles had stuck to oily outside surfaces; when the mechanics checked the aircraft, their gloves and clothes picked up a charge...
...appears at a reception and a rough voice bellows from the audience, "What about Varga, Lener, Goldfink?", everyone rocks with laughter at what seems an inexplicable joke. But as the months pass and the unreal festival approaches, the names of the mysterious trio keep echoing through London. Finally, a bomb of accusation bursts, in the form of the question: Did Marko make his first millions by selling his three compatriots to the Gestapo...