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Word: bombings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burma Girl A-Waitin' | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Orange marks from the smoke shell, which Thalhofer pushed out the door, remained in the snow in the back yard, in addition to remains of the bomb...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Gunman Deters 2 Students In Pursuit of Coop Plunder | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Business was rudely interrupted however by the explosion of the smoke bomb and the sight of three men rushing headlong for the back "time-clock" door of the establishment...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Gunman Deters 2 Students In Pursuit of Coop Plunder | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Then something told Thalhofer that further efforts might not be healthy he backtracked into the Coop, disposing of the second smoke bomb, which had been left at the back door to aid in the escape...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: Gunman Deters 2 Students In Pursuit of Coop Plunder | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

This accomplice may have set off the first smoke bomb. A fifth man was probably waiting to drive the getaway...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Stick-up Cleans Coop | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

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