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Word: bombings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eagle in the air and the whale in the sea cannot conquer the elephant in the jungle. Our overwhelming air and naval supremacy, even our bomb, cannot prevail over China's 700 million people. China warns it will not sit idly by if we attack, and made good a similar threat in Korea in 1952. Must we risk World War ITI to settle a pint-sized civil war in a feudal enclave 7,000 miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 26, 1965 | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...afternoon between two intent nuns; U.S. Communist Boss Gus Hall amiably discussed the significance of a speech with his neighbor, a Catholic priest. The meeting also proved a magnet for pacifists and peace marchers; sprinkled heavily throughout the listening throng, they cheered at every hint of banning the bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REQUIREMENTS OF PEACE | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

...Social Philosopher Will Herberg noted that the Pope's sketch of 20th century trends inexplicably ignored the spread of totalitarianism. And a number of Christian thinkers have noted that in dealing with the crucial issue of disarmament and world peace, Pope John said little more than "ban the bomb." An American Jesuit de scribes John's vague generalities on coexistence as "a lump of suet in a pudding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LASTING VISION OF POPE JOHN | 2/26/1965 | See Source »

Thirty seconds later Sedlacek hit a long bomb from the corner, and shortly thereafter McClung made a beautiful pass to Williams, whose basket put Harvard seven points ahead and out of reach. As the walls of the IAB pulsated, Crimson coach Floyd Wilson actually stood...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Quintet Stuns Penn, 76-67 | 2/20/1965 | See Source »

...National Medal of Science for his "contributions to scientific knowledge," Chemist Harold Urey, 71, recalled that when he developed heavy water in 1931 he never dreamed that his discovery would win the Nobel Prize or, for that matter, become a vital ingredient in the making of the atomic bomb. "I thought it might have some practical use," he said, plaintively, "in something like neon signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 19, 1965 | 2/19/1965 | See Source »

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