Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she visited London in 1949 as quite a young girl, Piri Halasz looked at the bomb sites, went to Madame Tussaud's, the Tower of London, Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, and a pub where she remembers having "a dreary serving of watery mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias...
...days without sleep, stocky, sandy-haired Rear Admiral William Guest ordered crewmen on the sea-stained, 2,100-ton submarine rescue ship U.S.S. Petrel to start heaving in on the winch. Four cold, tense hours later, as dawn exploded over the Mediterranean horizon, the sunken 2,800-lb. H-bomb that had defied every attempt at retrieval for 80 days splashed out of the water onto the Petrel's fantail...
Knights & Shotguns. Armed and encouraged by the court's rulings, the Justice Department could conceivably move to prosecute under federal law other rights murder cases, such as the sidewalk slaying of the Rev. James Reeb in Selma, the Birmingham church bombing in which four Negro girls died and the killing of Seminarian Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, Ala. Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with...
...into attacks on the 13 years of Tory rule that preceded Wilson's brief 17 months in office. He was still coolly confident of victory as he made his way by train around the hustings. At one Labor rally, he was hit in the face by a stink bomb thrown by a 14-year-old boy. The fluid splashed into Wilson's right eye, and he retreated from the platform for emergency medical treatment. After two days the inflammation subsided, but the incident pointed up the campaign's most unlovely aspect: a surge of violent heckling...
...Lawrence once described himself as "a kind of human bomb." The bomb exploded in all directions. Lawrence left 14 brooding, contentious novels, dozens of excited essays, scores of loose, somewhat lumpy poems, and hundreds of febrile, fretful letters. He painted, occasionally, as he wrote, in an earnest, impetuous manner. All of these disjecta membra have been examined with fascination and respect by a large number of critics, biographers and memoirists, but they have all but ignored the skeleton in Lawrence's literary closet: he was also a playwright...