Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reforming a bad prison is as delicate and dangerous a job as tinkering with the mechanism of a faulty bomb. For 88 years, California ran its fortress-like San Quentin penitentiary by looking the other way and hoping for the best. From the days when it was still a barnacled hulk floating off San Quentin Point, tough "con-bosses" all but ran the prison. Money bought liquor, women and narcotics, and the place was incredibly mismanaged. Some inmates made a small fortune during the '30s by turning out counterfeit bills in the prison photoengraving shop. But ordinary convicts were...
...smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...
...Train ( The Moon-Maker; The Man Who Rocked the Earth), produced a book of verse and sketches called How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers ("The awkward Auk is only known/To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone . . ."). He also became a successful sleuth. He helped police reconstruct the bomb used in the Wall Street bombing of 1920 and, after some laboratory work, led them to the man who blew up young Naomi Hall in the notorious Candy Box Murder Case.-The police began to consult him so often in baffling mysteries that his name became a regular headline...
...WOOD SEEKS CLUE TO NEW DEATH BOMB . . . FAMED JOHNS HOPKINS SCIENTIST CALLED IN TO AID POLICE . . . WOOD INVESTIGATES...
...Wall Street bomb, hidden in a yellow, horse-drawn cart from which the driver had fled, went off before the U.S. Assay Office on Sept. 16, 1920, killing 39 persons and wounding 400. Police never found out who the driver was. The Candy Box bomb went off one December day in 1929 in the kitchen of the Hall residence in Seat Pleasant, Md. Through Wood's reconstruction of the bomb, police traced it back to a young garage mechanic in Washington...