Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have another prime reason: after ten years of secret planning, the U.S. is on the verge of developing a true "clean bomb," with enormous implications for both brush-fire war and big-war tactics. It is the neutron bomb, triggered by a fission process, topped off by a small hydrogen (fusion) explosion, designed to bombard enemy troops in a specific area with millions of fatal, invisible neutron "bullets." The neutron bomb does not damage property, scatters virtually no radioactive fallout, cannot be detected. Friendly troops could enter the area shortly after the bomb had been used. And although...
...Algerian rebels last week answered Charles de Gaulle's proposal for cease-fire talks (TIME, Nov. 23) with a yes that was meant to be taken...
Lord Ever Just. Their feudal rule was especially intricate in Ruanda. At the center stood the great Mwami (king), the absolute Lord Ever Just and descendant of Envoys from Heaven. He ruled through a council of wisemen and a college of Biru (jurists), who were the Keepers of the Fire and of the Royal Drum, the symbol of power...
...stretching from the Normandy coast back to the embarkation ports of England. There is the gore and gallantry of the assault troops slashing their way onto Omaha and Utah beaches through the underbrush of mines, barbed wire, antitank and antipersonnel devices, while being Jashed by bullets, mortar and artillery fire from the German Atlantic Wall. As one British marine classically understated it when his outfit was dumped 50 yards offshore and forced to swim through a hail of machine-gun fire: "Perhaps we're intruding. This seems to be a private beach...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...