Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling that the U.S. was being unreasonable. To which Secretary of State Dean Rusk-as near to exasperation as he ever gets-retorted: "If we were to say that we would negotiate only if all of the violence in South Viet Nam were stopped while we continue to bomb the North, most people would say that we were crazy. When the other side makes exactly the same proposition in reverse, it is hard for me to understand why there are people who say, That sounds like a good proposition. Why don't you accept...
...army has put a stop to open fighting in Canton's streets, but the struggle continues in the city's outskirts. Gunfire can be heard constantly; occasionally it is punctuated by the sound of artillery. I also heard several loud explosions that sounded like plastic bomb blasts. Army troops, in their drab, formless, olive-green uniforms with red collars and red stars on their caps, are everywhere. Every hour or so, trucks come tearing down the streets, klaxons blaring, full of soldiers with weapons ready to deal with some disturbance...
...Catch-up Bomb...
Down 7-0, the Lafayette quarterback abandoned his short-passing attack and went for a catch-up quick bomb. The wind-aided aerial overflew the receiver and was picked off by Crimson corner-back Bill Cobb...
...attack; in Cambridge, England. In 1932, Cockcroft and his research partner, E.T.S. Walton, were the first to release atomic energy by splitting the atom with proton "bullets" in a linear accelerator instead of using naturally radioactive particles, the previous technique. That breakthrough led to the development of the atom bomb anc won the partners the Nobel Prize fo Physics in 1951. By then, Sir John was director of the Harwell atomic research center, pointing Britain's nuclear capability toward peaceful applica tions, including her first nuclear-power station...