Word: bomba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cream Bomb. Last week a 17-year-old high-school student died an agonizing death after eating a tainted cream puff, the kind known here as a creme bomba. That bomb exploded into a riot. Hundreds of fellow students attacked the shop that sold the poisoned cake. Two days later, the outbreak had turned into a citywide protest against profiteering and high prices, a demand for a 50% slash in prices or else. Thousands of cariocas, armed with bricks and clubs, took vengeance on the places they could not afford to patronize. The swank Roxy Theater, showing Mr. Deeds Goes...
Governor in the Harem. The crusade soon got under way again, after a courier brought word of U.S. warships in the harbor of nearby Bomba, a scant 40 miles from Derna...