Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these munitions plants, but the evacuating Leftists left most of them intact, confined themselves to such melodramatic but relatively unimportant gestures as dynamiting the enormous Buenos Aires cantilever bridge, opened at Bilbao only a month ago after costing the city 20,000,000 pesos. To replace that will make plenty...
...daughter who last year became the first woman officer of the Turkish Flying Corps, and a pioneer in Kamâl Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants...
Scheduled for the first day's competition are glider events and flights for the Class B glider pilots license, while spot landing, bomb dropping and similar events come off the second...
...Berlin's Plötzensee Penitentiary last week a shining ax crashed down. Off rolled the head of intellectual Helmuth Hirsch, the 21-year-old Jew arrested last December for plotting to kill "a high German official"-subsequently believed to be Jew-baiter Julius Streicher-with a bomb (TIME, May 3). Hirsch's family lives in Czechoslovakia, but U. S. diplomats in Berlin had taken him under their wing because his grandfather was a naturalized U. S. citizen. U. S. newspapers whooped for his life, but Hirsch, throughout his imprisonment, admitted he was guilty. He did not deny...
...Loyalist sources claimed the plane had been exploded by a time-bomb...