Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...
...they had been "destroyed." Meanwhile, the Langley (Black) had found rough water that prevented launching its aeroplanes. A few Black planes launched from a base near Porto Bello reached the Gatun locks but were driven off by anti-aircraft batteries. Ten Blue planes reached Porto Bello and attempted to bomb the Langley...
Third, Winston S. Churchill, defeated Liberal candidate at the past election, but an ex-cabinet minister of multifarious portfolios, calmly threw a high-explosive word-bomb into the midst of the agitated political circle. With the full weight of the Rothermere press behind him, Mr. Churchill, often alluded to as "little Winnie," damned the Liberals and damned the Laborites and became, ipso facto, aligned with the Conservatives. He declared that the Labor Party will be invited to assume office on sufferance in order that "if they are violent they may be 'defeated, and if they are moderate they...
...high explosive word-bomb...
...while few men lack the physical courage to risk their own lives, none will be willing to take the chance of having his wife and children die in their home because an enemy he has never seen can drop a bomb on his city." There is another puzzler. I can't make out whether it is an argument for war or for peace. The preceding paragraphs of the editorial would lead one to believe that war was all right, in fact rather amusing and delightful until it became so horrible, so sort of unfair and uncertain. This business...