Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacked the wives and daughters of anti-Machadoans on the streets, ripping their clothes off with razor blades. Violence begets violence. In 1931 after the collapse of ex-President Menocal's abortive revolution (TIME. Aug. 17. 1931 et seq.) the A. B. C. was established to murder and bomb the Porra and other Machado henchmen. Strange as it seems careful observers believe that the A. B. C. may be the savior of Cuba. It, of all the opposition groups, has a program that consists of more than fighting Machado and hoping to fill its own pockets. Other opposition leaders...
...whispered in an alleyway. But many a missing student had merely burrowed into hiding. Police walked the streets of Havana in pairs, carbines crooked under their arms. Newspapers were firmly gagged,* except the Administration's Heraldo de Cuba which growled: "The arm of popular will cannot be the bomb or the cowardly employed shotgun. With such weapons a few children and women and even men may be killed, but the Fatherland cannot be killed with them...
...hours the Macon flew in the vicinity of her dock at Akron, then headed northwest to circle Cleveland. Clevelanders saw her shining fat stern disappear over Lake Erie. At sunset she was back at Akron where a smoke bomb and two green flares signaled her descent in the twilight...
Harvard also scored in the bomb dropping contest in which pilots dropped small bags of flour onto a target from a height of not under 200 feet. A. M. Brown '34, president of the club got first place by dropping his bomb approximately 30 feet from the mark. Fairbank gained second place with a distance of slightly under 40 feet. The contestants were hampered by a gusty wind which carried the light bombs off their course. The club gained another score when Fairbank finished second in the precision landing contest. The flyers throttled their motors at 2000 feet, circled down...
...with unimportant revolutionaries, kind to important ones who may some day rule in his stead. Last week he pardoned Antonio Mendieta Lizaur, 18, nephew of an important Revolutionist, Col. Carlos Mendieta. In 1932 young Mendieta Lizaur was sentenced to eight years in jail on a charge of planting a bomb in the La Salle College laboratory. Last week he planned to join his uncle and Cuba's famed exile colony in Miami, Fla. (TIME, April 10), to help fan Revolution in Cuba...