Word: blown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerardo Machado planted a bomb in the Hotel Santa Clara. When it exploded it killed one Manuel Gonzales. 32, a Spanish salesman for lottery tickets. A small bomb exploded in front of a Havana tax office. A policeman reached the scene just in time to have his left hand blown off by a second, bigger bomb. At Guanabacoa a earful of men poured slugs from sawed-off shotguns into Military Supervisor Captain Oscar Pau, who had been accused of atrocities against Oppositionists...
Commander Wiley then testified to a significant change of mind. The amazingly severe "gust" which had wrenched the Akron was not a gust at all, he decided, but the shock of the ship's stern striking the water. (He recalled that the "gust'' had blown no wind through the control car.) No second shock was felt. Hence the important deduction that the Akron had been broken not by wind but by water. However, Metalsmith Erwin still insisted that the ship was still flying tail in air when he saw the girders snap. When the tail...
...veterans drawing pay for disabilities in no way connected with the War. Only those permanently and totally disabled in civil life stay on the rolls, and they get $20 per month instead of $40. Veterans with service-connected disabilities take a 20% cut. The blind soldier with a leg blown off in action now drawing $275 per month must get along...
...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...
...fifth day the whaler Globe 5 sighted Captain Riiser-Larsen, his two companions and his stiff-legged dog and picked them up as they were being blown seaward on a chip of ice 100 yd. long, 50 yd. wide...