Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nellie's" captain, A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop, likes to tell a yarn about an engagement off Normandy. "I had gone to bed one night after two or three nights without sleep," he relates. "There was a frightful crash and I ran on deck, thinking of a robot bomb. But a landing craft, filled with newspaper reporters and, I think, steered by one of them, had smashed into us. They dented...
...weak, the Mahatma disdained to be carried to his daily prayer meeting; he walked, unaided, on his spindly legs. His audience of about 1,000 strained to hear as he prayed for Hindu-Moslem unity. A booming thud interrupted him. A hundred yards away, on the garden wall, a bomb had exploded...
...country gunman like Jesse James, once held the rackets of all downstate Illinois in fief. His Prohibition Era battles with other gangs took a toll of more than 40 lives. He equipped his boys with dynamite, machine guns and a fleet of armored cars, once rented an airplane to bomb a rival's stronghold. Grey-haired, and living in semi-retirement on a 4,000-acre farm near Fairfield, Ill., he was shot one morning last October as he drove to town in his jeep. Adds the ballad,* written by his gangster brother, Earl...
...Kashmir. Religious feelings still ran high from the autumn massacres in the Punjab; Sikh and Hindu refugees demanded revenge against Pakistan, and were forcing Moslems out of their homes. War fever caught on in Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan hopefully exclaimed: "Every Pakistani is an atom bomb in himself...
Forty-mile distant Worcester, where the car's license plates were stolen continued to supply the most promising angles on the smoke-bomb holdup, as a squad of detectives combed the city over the weekend in an effort to apprehend the men responsible...