Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sooner or later it had to happen. In the third week of Germany's "harassing fire" with winged robot bombs on southern England, one of the missiles hit a nursery home in which 26 tiny war orphans were sleeping. The first body recovered from the welter of wreckage was a dead, dark-haired little boy in a blue bed jacket; the second, a dead, blonde little girl in a pink nightdress...
Marshal in command of the German Armies in Italy) with a sheaf of amazing blueprints and photographs. They comprised a design for the long-distance mili tary rocket he had predicted. U.S. Army ordnance officers had brushed aside robot-bomb designs by such established invent ors as Hammond, Charles F. Kettering, the late Lawrence B. Sperry. But Kessel ring and Hermann Göring gave Oberth a big staff of technicians and the run of German laboratories...
Addressing the House of Commons on the robot problem, Home Security Minister Herbert S. Morrison took a cautious line. He admitted that public utilities had been damaged, but only "slightly," and said that civilian casualties were running lower than in the "little blitz" of last February...
...other hand, it was noted that more people were seeking nightly shelter in the subways than at any time since the great blitz of 1940-41. And Minister Morrison warned that the robot barrage might not yet have reached its peak...
...Germany (where the robot was christened "V-I," for Vergeltungswaffe or "Reprisal Weapon" No. I), Herr Goebbels got cold feet about his first delirious claims of demoralization and destruction in Britain, and ordered his radio stooges to tone down...