Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killing, that, when a neighbor ordered them off his land, they had replied that they would leave if P. S. C. told them to. As for the shooting, John Crempa stuck to the story he had told at the time. He said the deputies had fired a tear-gas bomb through his parlor window, shot down his wife when she rushed out with hands raised. Then, he admitted, he had gone back to get his old Army revolver, but it had jammed when he tried to fire it. His daughter Kamelia had fired some shots later, but she was only...
Evidently of much sterner stuff than its tipsy neighbor on Oxford Street, Memorial Hall early yesterday morning remained unshaken in the face of concerted bombing by several Freshmen. Several months of plotting, a dozen copies of the New Yorker, and quantities of glue, canvas, and guncotton went into the production of a bomb eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter...
...Harvard Hall other than Holden Chapel, made necessary a pump in this vicinity. This was the famous Yard Pump which remained in service until 1901, long after city water was introduced in the College buildings. After several times being damaged and repaired it was demolished by a "Med Fac" bomb, which nearly carried with it the front of Hollis Hall...
Paris. Government-inspired, General Niessel, late of the French Supreme War Council, charged that the demilitarized Rhineland "safety zone," established by the Versailles Treaty and confirmed in mutual amity by the Locarno Treaty, has now been partially militarized with 40,000 Germans equipped with machine guns, armored cars, bomb and flame throwers and a signal corps. "The only way to live at peace with a nation possessed of such a passion for violence," said General Niessel, "is to confront it with force equally strong...
Five days later the Italians were at it again, bombing the U. S. Red Cross Hospital at Daggah Bur where Dr. Robert Hockman was killed a month ago when he toyed with a dud bomb. Italian marksmanship was, as usual, poor; there were no casualties...