Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week it was indisputable that someone was making a systematic attempt to rob them not simply of their livelihoods but of their lives. On July 17 Chiropractor Alfred Post took his automobile to a garage for repairs. A mechanic lifted the engine hood, had a small bomb explode in his face. Week later, too hurried to drink his usual luncheon malted milkshake at his office, Dr. Post gave it to a Negro elevator operator Last week the Negro was still partially paralyzed from the effects of strychnine in the drink...
...Hotel Europe last week, little recking that a clerk named Knop lay awake in a room on the second floor. With him were his mistress, Irma Zwiestlbauer, and a small child. Clerk Knop was determined to die and he did not care in what company. He set off a bomb of ecrasite, an Austrian shell explosive. Besides gratifying Knop's desire it split the hotel from basement to roof, blew out the front of four stories sent 180-ft. streamers of flame into the air, injured 80 and gave Knop, mistress & child the company of four strangers in Death...
...determination to reform Japan remains unchanged!" cried Prisoner Eitan Goto passionately. "I am prepared to die seven times, but I will" bomb seven times, if necessary, until the country is purified. I regret I caused trouble for the Emperor and disturbed public opinion, but I am prepared to die. I ask to be punished according...
...young Pierre found the work hard and long, the food scanty. But he was a good worker, got ahead. Developing an understanding for the oven, he discovered that he could read while watching it and, un like King Alfred, not burn his cakes. When Anarchist Emile Henry's bomb exploded 50 yards from his cellar workroom (Feb. 12, 1894) it made Hamp begin to wonder whether he wanted to stay a pastry cook all his life...
...used as trimming for the restaurant's specialty, filet de sole Marguery. When he got a chance to go to London and the Savoy, he jumped at it. His food and quarters there were so much better that he became discontented, thought again of Henry's bomb when he caught glimpses of the sleek diners in the grillroom...