Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congratulations to Sadat and Begin [Nov. 28] for taking the first steps in defusing the bomb, while the others sit back and listen to it tick...
...safeguard the country against change and those who want him to bring about change safely. In recent weeks there has been a series of incidents-a rash of daylight robberies and attacks in white suburban areas -that has had an unsettling effect on the national psyche. A bomb exploded at rush hour in Johannesburg's leading shopping complex, injuring 19 people. Two weeks ago, a National Party candidate for Parliament, Economist Robert Smit, and his wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home near Johannesburg. The victims were shot and stabbed, and their killers sprayed mysterious letters...
...none was more compelling than the panoply of three First Ladies of the U.S., all precisely coiffed, dressed with impeccable conservatism, ankles neatly crossed, sitting side by side at the opening session in the Sam Houston Coliseum to promote the Equal Rights Amendment. "We don't look like bomb throwers, and we don't think like that either," said Lady Bird Johnson. Yet there they were: Lyndon Johnson's widow, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter...
...used to obfuscate rather than communicate. But not with impunity. For the past six years, the National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Public Doublespeak has presented a "dishonorable mention" to a particularly offensive official utterance. Last week the committee singled out the Pentagon for terming the neutron bomb, which kills every living creature within its reach but leaves physical structures unharmed, "a radiation enhancement weapon." The Defense Department did not send a representative to accept the award, but it did designate Army Colonel Jack Munsey as "doublespeak person" to respond to numerous inquiries. Said he: "The particular term...
Edward Teller, principal architect of the H-bomb, reflecting on his life 25 years later: "I don't give a good damn what my public image is. I have one image of myself and that is of a man who is shaving...