Word: bombings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...getting-things-done that the occasion demands. One way to resolve the space tangle once and for all would be to set up a unified, civilian-military space organization similar to the World War II Manhattan District in which scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer developed the A-bomb under the get-things-done command of the Army's General Leslie Groves. A get-things-done type from the military today would be of the caliber of Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay, a man-to-the-moon enthusiast and organizational genius, or Air Force Lieut...
...Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan and Eisenhower. Other critics suggested that De Gaulle wants to postpone the summit until France explodes its own A-bomb-which seems to be having troubles-so that it would not be the only nation at the summit outside the nuclear club...
...Dominican Republic. "The church cannot want any of its sons to suffer," he said, "and it is to be supposed that an Argentine exiled from his country lives in suffering." At week's end part of the front of Plaza's house was blasted off by unknown bomb setters-a hint of the passions the politically ambitious archbishop is unleashing...
HAVANA, Oct. 26--Prime Minister Fidel Castro, in his angriest speech speech against the United States, tonight charged U.S. officials are impotently permitting planes to bomb Cuba from American soil...
...claimed an unidentified light plane this afternoon dropped an incendiary bomb on a sugar mill in western Cuba and burned a house down...