Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bomb 'em back to the Stone...
...such a week of more or less simultaneous shocks since early November 1956, when a British-French-Israeli force was invading Egypt and the Soviets were crushing the Hungarian revolt, or since mid-October 1964, when the Soviet Central Committee deposed Nikita Khrushchev, the Chinese exploded their first atom bomb and Britain elected a Labor government in a remarkable upset...
...administrators themselves. Some faculty wives still refuse to read or subscribe to the Crimson, and are still somewhat wary of students. In my mother's case, the attitude was understandable. She was not favorably impressed by my father's fear that someone might wire his car with a bomb, and she often worried that he might have a heart attack or something...
...brief lull, there came sporadic bursts of gunfire from inside the Savoy, then the long staccato of a Kalashnikov. It was answered by the wind-sucking thump of an Israeli bazooka fired from the beach 100 yds. away. Suddenly the building shook with a tremendous explosion as a bomb rigged by the terrorists went off. The hotel's third and fourth floors collapsed in rubble. The attack was over...
...conventional explosives but produce no dangerous fallout either in the U.S.S.R. or abroad. As proof, they revealed hitherto secret details of a 1971 test along the canal route. It involved the simultaneous detonation of a row of three 15-kiloton nuclear charges (compared with 20 kilotons for the Hiroshima bomb), spaced about 500 ft. apart. The blasts produced so little radiation and such stable walls that technicians were able to walk along the rim of the 2,600-ft.-long crater only two days later. The only damages were some cracks in the brick ovens and wall plaster of nearby...