Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George McGovern captured their fancy for a moment. When he told farmers that if Ronald Reagan were re-elected they should sell their farms and build bomb shelters, there was an approving snort or two. McGovern was the only other real candidate besides Mondale to show up around Greenfield. The rest sent their relatives...
Initially, the test seemed routine. At 9 a.m., Department of Energy (DOE) engineers detonated a nuclear bomb 1,168 ft. beneath the arid landscape of the Rainier Mesa at the Nevada test site 93 miles northwest of Las Vegas. About three hours later, after instruments detected no radiation at the site, workers in white coveralls returned to trailers near the blast area to begin collecting data. They had just started to snip the 150 cables connected to underground sensors when the earth gave way. "I felt the earth shake, and before I knew it I was standing on my head...
...YEAR is 1987 and you have just completed a career as Secretary to transfer your skills at bomb-making and strategic weapons planning to the civilian sector, you decide to sell your memories Just your publisher calls with information on your publicity tour, you get another call It's the censorship team they want to see your book and may be make a few suggestions. Welcome to the latest installment of the among secrecy obsession of the Reagan Administration...
According to Jackson's associates, Giraldi asked the singer to move more slowly and ordered the fireworks "heated up" a bit. The combination proved volatile. On the fiery fifth take, as pop music fans the world over swiftly learned, sparks from a smoke bomb ignited Jackson's hair, sending the singer to the hospital with second-and third-degree burns on his scalp. Jackson is expected to recover fully, though he may require cosmetic surgery to replace his hair in the burned area. His physician last week stressed that the injuries could have been much worse...
...time to play any professional sport." And he nominated Coach Tom Flores as this year's genius. But Tom just smiled and said, "Einstein was a genius; I'm a football coach." To Flores, football is not mysterious. "The Raiders play attack football: with the bomb or the threat of the bomb on offense, with man-to-man coverage on defense. We draft and trade for toughness...