napalm

Example Sentences

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First, they attempted peaceful tactics, such as a pressure campaign to halt the manufacture of napalm.

From Los Angeles Times

“Physicists were guilty of the atomic bomb, and chemists were guilty of napalm. Biologists were trying very hard to be guilty of something.”

From Washington Post

Within a decade of the 1975 fall of Saigon, he reported, one of his students heard a reference to the incendiary chemical notoriously used as a weapon in Vietnam and “innocently asked what napalm was.”

From Washington Post

It was “nakedness, but also beyond nakedness in the sense of the napalm shearing the skin off the children,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

Recalling the event in the first chapter of his book, McNamara imagines his father hearing about “body counts and napalm bombings … wondering how to explain it all to his only son.”

From Los Angeles Times