Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPACE SHUTTLE Challenger blew up. Rockets, even $1.2 billion rockets, blow up. Being strapped to a several hundred thousand pound bomb hurtling through the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour will never be a particularly safe thing...
...First year Business School student David Morrow, after a Boston police bomb squad removed the "bomb of the week" prize from his mailbox in Gallatin Hall. The incendiary device turned out to be a deactivated hand grenade (October...
...woman wearing a scarf over tightly rolled hair curlers, and toreador tights over troubled thighs, gave off a brassy laugh as she came across the nose art on a bomber called Whistler's Mother. It depicted a cigar-smoking tart with a mug of beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked...
Elsewhere along the flight line the curious pressed the flesh of pilots, peered in bomb bays, pretended to be tail gunners. "How does she handle in a cross wind...
...likened the event to the detonation of a hydrogen bomb in an underground cavern: all matter moved to the fringes in the shape of a shell leaving the core relatively empty. Galaxies were the direct result of the separate waves in multiple explosions colliding, which caused a large deposit of high density matter, the scientists said...