Just as Sime had predicted, the story was a political bombshell.

Inviting Honecker to visit the West had been a political bombshell that Kohl's rivals found difficult to handle.

"The whole issue of blackface had become a political bombshell," Mr. Bagneris said.

Any of the above could become a domestic political bombshell.

That itself was viewed as a political bombshell.

Instead, the sergeant ordered them to charge, and that was just the catalyst needed to turn an ugly little incident into a political bombshell.

The fact is that even before Mr. Krugman rolled his grenade under the tent, the Republicans had recognized inequality as a potential political bombshell and had attempted to defuse it.

Ortega's Miscalculation The Nicaraguan President brought a political bombshell to a meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders.

Presented to the Bundestag, it would be a political bombshell.

During this term Rockefeller quietly and successfully completed the integration of Arkansas schools that had been such a political bombshell only a few years before.