Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shell from sea, by bomb from...
...Queer feelings Ed and I had when we found that the same plane dropped a dud 500-lb. bomb in a warehouse not over 150 yards from where our offices are located...
Satisfaction was discreetly shown at the British Foreign Office in London last week as dispatches from Shanghai urgently warned that its Japanese conquerors were about to stage a blatant "Victory Parade," with chances 10-to-1 in favor of some aggrieved Chinese patriot hurling a bomb...
...said the police marksman, the man who threw the grenade. At first he was called a Korean, then a Chinese. His name did not come out last week. Before the parade could reform there occurred another, equally fatalistic demonstration. A Chinese patriot, who had watched the bomb explode, gave a shrill cry: "Long live the Kuomintang!" (Government Party), and committed suicide by leaping off the top of a tall building...
Claiming he had not known any Japanese troops were trespassing on U. S.-guarded ground, the Japanese commander promptly ordered their withdrawal. Same night a representative of the victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...