Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...twelve whites were randomly shot by Black Muslim gunmen in the "Zebra" killings. Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, a former Manson family member, and Sara Jane Moore both tried to kill President Ford in 1975. The home of San Francisco Supervisor Dianne Feinstein, now acting mayor, was the target of a bomb in 1976. District Attorney Joseph Freitas' car was bombed the following year...
Next to a nuclear holocaust, none of the horrors forecast by contemporary doomsdayers have seemed more threatening than the population bomb. As this bomb ticked away and the world's population mushroomed, so the prediction went, an explosion would be inevitable. Resources would be depleted, agricultural lands overtaxed, fuel reserves exhausted, and soon-some Cassandras said by as early as the mid-21st century-global calamity would occur...
Jack O'Callahan, whose slapshot was good for an assist on the third goal, then made it 5-1 at 6:12. Fidler stole the puck at the Harvard blue line and tossed it ahead for the Terrier captain, whose bomb exploded in the back of the Harvard cage...
...inexperienced students can not be expected to possess flawless laboratory technique. Science students must learn to deal with lab hazards, but they need not be exposed to risks they are not yet prepared to handle safely: training student scientists in a teaching laboratory with carcinogenic chemicals is like training bomb squads with live explosives...
...nuclear warheads are mounted on intermediate missiles with a range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry no missiles. In a major conflict, little advantage could be gained from hundreds of bomb shelters carved out all over China on Mao's command to "dig tunnels deep, store grain everywhere, and never seek hegemony." China's ability to fight off even a limited Soviet thrust is questionable. Indeed, if China buys modern weapons from Europe, or possibly...