Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producing from his pocket a dynamite bomb, the soldier slid it gingerly into the 4-inch pipe, lowered it slowly until it reached what felt like the bottom of the pipe. At 4:25 a. m. he lit the fuse...
...Denied that the water supply of Havana was "all but cut off" by the explosion of a dynamite bomb near the public aqueduct. Potent, the explosion tore a four-foot hole in a watermain, injured four passersby, whooshed an 18-lb. piece of masonry over a block and a half of houses. All day long a 15-ft. fountain spouted from the hole, but Secretary of Public Works Lombillo Clark said he would soon have that fixed...
Club v. Club. In Dictator Machado's favorite club, the Havana Union, a bomb was exploded last week, reputedly by sympathizers of the Havana Yacht Club which he padlocked (TIME, Jan. 19) when one of its members "snubbed" a member of his cabinet. A club which had extended courtesies to the ousted yachtsmen had its municipally-owned golf course taken away...
...pass us by. That is why we are destined to be destroyed or forgotten." Orphaned by the death of her mother, Marie and her brother Dmitri were brought up by a grand ducal uncle and aunt. When she was 15 her uncle was killed by a revolutionist's bomb. Her aunt married her off to a Swedish prince when she was 18. Marie liked her husband less and less, got the marriage annulled, went back to Russia. Meantime she visited Italy for her health, and there was a patient of "Dr. M." (Axel Munthe, author of The Story...
...illegal means, especially by selling dope, liquor, women, gambling; 2) the specific racket, as perfected by Chicago's underworldlings with many variations, of making tradesmen join a "union" and pay "dues" for protection from the gangster's "mob," who smash florist windows, overturn laundry wagons, bomb grocery stores, burn unfinished buildings...