Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course London will be bombed in the next war, and I'll tell you why. . . . In the event of war the Germans will bomb London in order to frighten...
British and U. S. photographers, keenly competitive, set up their cameras at the fence. In an effort to spoil their rivals' pictures as the horses approached the jump, the Britons set off a "flare" bomb. The smoky explosion failed of its purpose and, instead, caused Golden Miller's $10,000,000 balk which occurred directly in front of the U. S. photographers' cameras. Their sensational pictures, which, the Express misleadingly published without comment, failed to show the cause of the mishap...
...World's third most extensive city-suddenly became the World's darkest. Over 150 battle planes- barred to Germany by the now scrapped Versailles treaty-thundered aloft over Berlin in a night air raid followed by another at dawn. Some dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared profusely bandaged. A little girl...
...weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer a perfect target for a good rousing Revolution later on. Last week's weapons were the ubiquitous Cuban bomb and the dread general strike which ended the reign of Tyrant Gerardo Machado two years...
...fears. At present, it seems, nations which should trust are dominated by fear, and those which fear are emboldened. The peoples of the world seem at times to resemble a crowd in a small room, in the center of which one or two lunatics are playing with a bomb. Each one finds excuses for non-interference, and makes futile efforts to keep as far away as possible. Meanwhile the pin, slowly, but surely, is being loosened from the bomb...