Word: bombed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...organization called the Ambassadors, a now disbanded group of 29 top seniors assigned to patrolling the campus and encouraging others to attend classes. Legion members, mostly wealthy youngsters from prominent families, prowled less well-to-do neighborhoods at night, firing shots at one student's home, exploding a pipe bomb on another's car. A fire bomb tossed at a black student's house failed to hurt anyone only because it fell short and ignited in the front yard. Said a classmate: "These pillars of our community (were) doing worse things than we will ever do in our lives...
Three years later Hitler marched into the Rhineland and started World War II. By the time the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 our lives had become increasingly affected by the war, and many of us wound up in one or another of the armed forces for the duration. Some were killed and wounded in the service of their country; I remain convinced that many more would have died, including thousands of other Americans and Japanese, had not President Truman approved the dropping of the atom bomb which brought the war to a half...
...terrorist acts in which Israelis had been killed. Furthermore, almost half of those released were being permitted to return to their homes in Israel or the occupied territories. Among those released was Ahmed Zmurid, who had been serving a life sentence for his participation in a 1968 car bombing in Jerusalem in which 15 people died and more than 50 were injured. Others were Adnan Kleihal and Sudhi Naarani, who were jailed for life in 1975 for planting a bomb in the students' cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Perhaps the best known was Kozo Okamoto, 37, a pro-Palestinian...
...midst of the fighting in West Beirut, a car bomb was detonated in Christian East Beirut, killing the driver and 55 passersby, including ten children who were trapped in a blazing bus. No organization claimed responsibility for the blast, the worst in East Beirut since the one that killed President-elect Bashir Gemayel in September...
...film or even see the script finale. Says Warren: "It's all very suspicious. No one knows what anyone else is up to." Everyone is nonetheless promising a rollicking comedy thriller packed with mirth and mayhem. If not, it's the producers in the toilet with the bomb...