Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slave v. Grave. Throughout his oratory ran a dark premonition that he would be slain. And with reason. Back in Montgomery, a twelve-stick dynamite bomb had been thrown on his porch, but failed to explode. In Harlem in 1958, a deranged Negro woman stabbed him dangerously near the heart. He had been pummeled and punished by white bullies in many parts of the South. He was hit in the head by a rock thrown in Chicago. When he won the Nobel Prize, Coretta King mused: "For the past ten years, we have lived with the threat of death always...
...GERMAN ATOMIC BOMB by David Irving. 329 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...spring of 1945, with the Nazis on the verge of defeat, a small group of scientists crowded into a cave in southern Germany for one last attempt at starting a chain reaction in their uranium pile. It was far too late to produce an atomic bomb that could help the fatherland. But the scientists-unaware that the U.S. had accomplished the feat more than two years before-were determined that Germany should produce the world's first nuclear chain reaction before the war ended. Their experiment, like the entire German A-bomb program, ended in failure...
...evacuated village, and Jordanian 155-mm. Long Toms zeroed in on seven kibbutzim. As the duel spread south toward Jericho along a 65-mile front, the Israelis called in their jets, sending waves of fighter-bombers across the river and behind the Gilead mountains deep into Jordanian territory to bomb out the Long Toms...
Midway in Rock Singer Jimi Hendrix's concert at Cleveland's Public Music Hall last week, the master of ceremonies asked the audience to check under their seats: there had been a bomb threat. But as it turned out, the only explosion that night was onstage. Said Hendrix: "Nobody but Jimi burns a house down...