Search Details

Word: bombe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Those of Little Thought | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Hunt Owner of $8000 Cache as Coop Theft Suspect | 2/5/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court Sets Bail of $120,000 For Coop Robbery Suspect | 2/4/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Unbroken Prayer | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Unbroken Prayer | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | Next