Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Misconceived Salvation. Of one thing he was certain: that fear is a poor teacher. Men began to fear the bomb from the moment they first heard about it-a fear fed by radio broadcasts, newspaper reports and magazine articles. The effect of these shivery reports-though not their purpose-was "to make the mysterious and the horrible even more mysterious and horrible...
This latest step in the police drive to apprehend the four men who pulled the smoke bomb stickup followed hard on the heels of Tuesday's arraignment of Nicholas Mavrides, 39, of 38 Prince Street, Cambridge, on charge of having participated in the holdup...
...robbery, executed under the cover of two smoke bombs, seized funds that had just been delivered to the Coop for check cashing purposes. Over 200 customers and 75 employees were in the Coop building at the time of the holdup, but most of them, distracted by the first smoke bomb, failed to realize what was going...
...would take more than a bomb to break Gandhi's personal peace. Said he to his audience: "Don't bother about it. Listen to me." Then he resumed his prayer...
Outside the wall, a young Hindu was seized. He had placed the crude bomb, then had stood well back waiting for the explosion. It did not come. As he moved closer to relight the fuse, the bomb went off. He was the only casualty...