Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snowy day in Moscow, the Grand Duke Sergius was blown to pieces at the Kremlin gate?one Kalayev threw the bomb; but the man who engineered the plot was the arch-Terrorist, Gen. Boris Savinkov...
...98th year he was seated at his desk when the "Wall Street bomb'" explosion occurred. When shattered glass suddenly fell on the floor beside him, he calmly directed that it be cleaned up, proceeded with his work...
...comedy of the Rhode Island Senate, begun with the bursting of a gas-bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair in the Senate Chamber, continued with the emigration of the Republican majority to Massachusetts (TIME, June 30, July 7), went still a step further...
...Rutland, Mass., waited to see what their angered Democratic colleagues would do. The Democratic Senators assisted by a Democratic Governor and Lieutenant Governor did what they could. They got two witnesses who testified that the Chairman of the Republican State Committee had instigated the placing of the ludicrous bomb. The witnesses also declared that one "Toots" Murray had actually placed the bomb...
Undoubtedly he is a great power, perhaps the greatest power in Russia. His mind is a volcano spewing up from his revolutionary soul the cruel lava of Communism. In this he differs from Rykov (TIME, July 14), who is the conservative power functioning noiselessly. Grigori is "the bomb boy of Bolshevism," whose autocratic impetuosity has earned for him the title of "Red Emperor." Again, he is different from Trotzky, whose aggressive spirit is tempered with shrewdness and whose power is wielded less by the force of oratory than by Machiavellian methods. In Zinoviev the fire of revolution burns unextinguishably...