Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...metal case of the set in question was bulged, and the contents shattered beyond use or identification, but it was no molten mass. Surely, if the bomb was as powerful as described, it would have been a fire hazard in the event of such an accident as I figured...
...cannot count on friends in Western Europe if our strategy in the event of war dictates that we shall first abandon them to the enemy with a promise of later liberation. Yet that is the only strategy that can prevail if the military balance of power in Europe is to be carried on the wings of our bombers and deposited in reserves on this side of the ocean...
Although it is too soon after the event to tell exactly what "happened to the Northwest," Leet pointed out that 99 percent of all earthquakes are caused by faults similar to the one which was responsible for the San Francisco tremor. But he expects that local geologists "will be running all over the place with hammers within the next few days attempting to find the explanation...
...Corcoran Gallery in Washington staged its 21st biennial exhibition last week. Designed to be a cross section of contemporary U.S. art, the show should have been as exciting an event as most of the Corcoran's past shows. Actually, it was no such thing...
...North Sea, Hamburg seems to wear the glittering smile of West Germany's new prosperity. The buildings are scrubbed; the rubble-cleared streets are thronged with businessmen bustling along on fashionable white-soled shoes (the soles are resourcefully cut from old Luftwaffe tires). But not forgotten is the event which Hamburg's people simply call "the catastrophe"-the week of concentrated Allied bombing, in the summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed...