Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...
...campaign: show the "outsiders," including President Eisenhower and "the Yankee press," that Arkansas does not want integrated schools. With the courage to win or lose on horse sense, Chancery Judge Lee Ward of Paragould (pop. 10,000) grimly contrasted his own law-and-order segregationism with the "bullet and bayonet approach" taken by Faubus. "Orval Faubus stands today on the brink of treason," said he in an election eve TV speech. "Is it war between Arkansas and the United States?" But early election night Judge Ward conceded, wished Faubus "and the people of Arkansas a happy and prosperous administration...
...sources, Bartholomew made plain, was U.S. Ambassador Henry J. Taylor, onetime radio commentator, who was quoted: "The most vicious bullet the Reds have in the cold war is the dope traffic." Swiss newspapers angrily demanded the ambassador's recall, and told their readers that he was the same Taylor "who once wrote sensational stories about flying saucers." Taylor and Bartholomew issued conflicting versions of their interview; the Swiss government summoned Taylor to tell him that they were "not enchanted," and the U.S. State Department apologized to the Swiss for the "embarrassment caused...
...Turley wins all by himself. So far this season, he has started twelve games, finished and won ten. He boasts 74 strikeouts, is nursing a stingy earned-run average of 2.21. After five years of firing baseballs just about as fast as anyone in the big leagues, "Bullet Bob" has finally figured out how to keep his shots on target. In the second game of last week's doubleheader, Turley stayed zeroed in until the Athletics' veteran reliever, Virgil Trucks, walked home the winning...
...fort in the Sahara scribbled a "rude French word'' in his diary and beneath it the pledge: "Nous vainerons" (We shall win). Hearing De Gaulle's radio appeal from London, Massu joined the Free French in Africa, was nicked in the calf by an Italian bullet in a desert battle, calmly cauterized the wound himself with a cigarette, fought on across North Africa and into France and Germany as a lieutenant colonel with General Le-clerc's famed 2nd Armored Division...