Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only is the dreadful destruction of men depicted, but also that of land. "The Deserted Post" and "The Ruins of Langemark" portray with great care the ruined shells of buildings, the bomb-pitted fields and shattered trees, and the general desolation of the countryside...
...special guard in red uniforms and 50 private detectives standing by every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Dynamic Miss Helen Clay Frick sent for the bomb squad from police headquarters and a special detail of a precinct captain, a sergeant, and twelve patrolmen. Only then were the doors opened and New York's bluest bloods admitted to a museum to which, in the will of its donor, "the entire public shall forever have access subject only to reasonable regulations...
...advantage to Italy in the death of Haile Selassie was obvious, but Good Soldier Badoglio forgot one thing. When a soldier is wounded, he screams and sometimes dies. When a war correspondent is wounded his scream is heard around the world. Some 1,000 bombs dropped in the 17 minutes the planes circled over Dessye killed 53 persons, wounded 200. In the mêlée somebody shot Correspondent Georges Goyon of the Havas News Agency through the knee, and a Miss Petra Hoevig, Red Cross nurse serving in the Adventist hospital, broke her leg jumping into a trench...
...Government in the United Kingdom have been warned that if Proposal 4A is put into effect, Benito Mussolini will say "Yes" to the 125 fanatical young aviators who have asked whether they may strike a suicidal blow for Italy by diving 125 planes each loaded with a bomb into 125 ships of the British Royal Navy which now has some 200 ships in the Mediterranean...
...first event will be spot landing; the contestants attempts to land within a circle 50 feet in diameter from an altitude of 500 feet. Following this will come paper strafing, hitting with the propeller a roll of paper previously dropped from the plane, and bomb dropping. Flour bags will be used in this, with the same circle as target...