Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DETONATE A BOMB in the middle of a conversation, Alfred Hitchcock observed to an interviewer, and you will make the audience jump. But let them know that there is a bomb underneath the table over which two people are having a normal conversation and you can have your audience on the edge of their seats for as long as you like...
...hand by guard Jeff Hill got the Crimson back into the contest. He fired off three straight baskets to pull Harvard within one, and Glenn Fine dropped in a bomb from long distance to put the Crimson in the lead...
...Iowa State Historical Museum has mounted an exhibit in Des Monies of bomb fragments and balloons recovered in that state. There were six known victims of the bombing; on May 5, 1945, in Ely, Ore., a woman and five children went to inspect the strange object that had drifted down from the skies and were killed when the bomb exploded. The danger is not over. Some live bombs are still lying about U.S. prairies and mountains. "If you see something that looks like a bomb," cautions Iowa Museum Director Jack Musgrove,"leave it alone and call...
Watch System. Aside from unexploded ordnance (workmen have already found two rockets and a 500-lb. bomb at the American site), the twelveto 18-month duty tours are not likely to be exceptionally hazardous. Besides, says C. William Kontos, who heads the State Department section overseeing the mission, "on the one side you have the whole of the Israeli army, on the other the whole of the Egyptian army, plus 4,400 U.N. troops in between...
...contrast, in the Communist-controlled countryside, land reform and collectivization, water conservation and increased use of fertilizer had raised food production well above the hunger levels of 1970-1973, when these areas were under heavy U.S. bombing. There was enough extra food in the country for city residents, but the only way they could get it was to go where the food grew; there were too few trucks to carry the food into the capital. Other considerations, such as the Khmer Rouge's fear that the U.S. would bomb Phnom Penh off the map, only added to the urgency...