Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also invisible is the Young Annamite Party, driven into hiding by the French. Much like the Turkish Revolutionists in 1918. the Young Annamites of today demand proclamation of an Annamite Republic. They refer contemptuously to Ping Pong Player Bao Dai as a "French Emperor" and are not above hatching bomb plots against French Governor Pierre Pasquier who has had several narrow escapes...
...called Bomb Boys & Girls of Bolshevism, terroristic heroes of Russia's Revolution, include not only active Bolsheviks like Josef Stalin but a host of passive old men & old women, safely pensioned on the onetime estate of Prince Sheremetiev, 40 miles from Moscow. Last week some of the pensionaries grumbled as old people will, remarked that even now only 40% of their number are Communists...
...Nobody notices human suffering in all this fuss about machinery and the Five-Year-Plan," complained a flashing-eyed non-Communist oldster. "The things I fought for - Freedom, Equality. Happiness - somehow the Revolution has lost sight of them!" No grumbler is Bomb Boy Michael Frolenko. ancient, grizzled Chief Assassin (there were 20) of Tsar Alexander II, who "liberated"' Russia's 20,000.000 serfs. After the bombing "the Emperor . . . presented a terrific sight," writes his eyewitness-nephew, Grand Duke Alexander, "his right leg torn off, his left leg shattered, innumerable wounds all over his head and face...
...South Manchuria Railway. Workmen were seen working on the under side of that bridge during the night. The only place where a lookout could have hidden was inside a Japanese sentry box. At the very instant when Chang's private train passed under the bridge an electrically wired bomb dropped down on his private car, blew the Old Tiger out of all consideration. Young Chang, inheritor of his father's great domain, had neither the force nor the ability to handle it. The best intentioned young man in the world, he is temperamentally unfitted to be a soldier...
...penitent last week was Dr. Eduard Benes, "Smartest Little Statesman in Europe," perpetual Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Benes had said, "Bombardment from the air is barbarous and inhuman." Sir John Simon pointed out that British planes often find it necessary to bomb rebellious tribesmen. Dr. Benes promptly ate humble pie, exclaiming, "Of course British flyers have never been guilty of barbarous actions...