Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which Benito Mussolini had sent 280,000 men 2,500 miles at a cost of $160,000,000. Sprawled over three hills Aduwa was a collection of low-walled huts, some thatched, some roofed with corrugated iron, that housed some 3,000 souls. Count Ciano squinted down through his bomb sights and pulled the trigger...
...sitting in the Swedish hospital chatting with some of the doctors when we heard a sudden whistling sound. I said, 'That's a bomb.' I was only joking at first but for some reason we all ran outside...
Meeting in agitation last week, Britain's Cabinet considered their position in view of the fact that Continental air forces have long been deemed able to bomb Britain's Home Fleet handily at its present bases in the North Sea and the English Channel. Admiralty experts advised His Majesty's Government to remove the Home Fleet to the extreme southern tip of Wales where Milford Haven affords the refuge of a strongly fortified harbor extending some ten miles inland. Forehanded as usual, the Admiralty announced that it has already bought lands at Milford Haven and is ready to launch...
...That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General...
...find out nothing last week except that the best rooms in Moscow's best hotels, for which tourists are charged $15 per day, were being occupied free by nondescript persons of both sexes, of every race and all colors. The last Chairman of the Comintern was the famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," shaggy Comrade Grigory Zinoviev. In 1926 thrifty Joseph Stalin decided to squander less Soviet gold on Communists abroad and Chairman Zinoviev, huffing and puffing, resigned from the Comintern. To day, since Stalin has broken not only with Zinoviev but also with Trotsky, who should be groomed...