Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favor dropping an atom bomb on the state of Mississippi. I am ashamed that such a savage state exists in the country...
...went to work for a top New York law firm, moved off to Washington in 1942 as a Lend-Lease Administration lawyer, soon switched over to be chief counsel to Dr. Vannevar Bush's Office of Scientific Research and Development, which was then working on the atomic bomb. He spent a postwar year as special assistant to James Forrestal, then Secretary of the Navy, and in 1947 went to Merck as general attorney. In that capacity he was instrumental in getting his old boss, Bush, signed on as the firm's board chairman...
...delinquents are mostly dullards, victims of no specific evil unless it be that handy malaise compounded of restlessness, lack of love, excessive materialism and the Bomb. A valid set of anxieties, which current moviemakers sometimes stuff into the places where they used to put plot...
...educator can't just keep doing the same things better," Mrs. Bunting says; a good educator has to have insights into the future because he is preparing people to live in a future world. "Most people tend to mentally put away the bomb without really thinking much about it," she continues, "because they're scared." When her appointment is over next July, she will look for ways to aid public understanding about atomic energy...
...weapons that have "effects greater than can be imagined" as "most wicked." Some European and Oriental prelates wanted to make this denunciation even more specific; but Auxiliary Bishop Philip Hannan of Washington and Archbishop George Andrew Beck of Liverpool argued that the schema said too much about banning the bomb and too little about disarmament controls. Beck said that the council should not be too quick to condemn governments that have kept the peace and freedom through the nuclear deterrent: "To turn the other cheek is a counsel of perfection addressed to individuals, not to governments that have a grave...