Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported to have assaulted Damascus, been repulsed by French cavalry, to have prepared for another onslaught, to have captured an outpost. The French fort of Sueida with a garrison of 200 was besieged by the Druse tribe . . . An airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding out in his automobile . . . Two caravans of 40 camels each were reported carrying Bedouin dead and wounded to the rear . . . Deir-ez-Zor, city of 20,000, was reported captured by the natives...
Then one day at Sarajevo a bomb blew Francis Ferdinand to bits, and von Hoetzendorf went forth to war. He promptly lost Galicia to the Russians and his prestige waned. But he planned the campaign which resulted in its recapture, and was given the Order of Merit by the Kaiser when Lemberg fell to his advance...
...Hongkong, a Chinese passenger jumped off a street car, leaving behind him a shrieking bomb, especially designed to put an end to the existence of a strikebreaking driver. He fled. So did the passengers. The bomb exploded. The car blew up. One passenger was injured...
...rate, he entered suit to obtain the Cathedral and all that went with it. Receiving a preliminary judgment in his favor, Bishop Adam and his lawyer obtained the assistance of a police bomb squad early in July, attacked Platon, drove him forth. But they overlooked the fact that the judge had granted a stay of judgment to hear Platen's argument; hence their ouster was illegal...
...Maurice Despret, a banking genius of Belgium and President of the Congress, threw the first bomb into the proceedings by attacking, not the justice of the Experts' (Dawes) Plan, but its feasibility. Grave doubt exists in the minds of many ex-Allied economists on this point and still graver doubts are entertained by many Germans. But that anybody should have publicly thrown a wet blanket over the Plan was a possibility too disconcerting for thought. Yet, it happened. Allied countries were horror-stricken. Germans jubilated...