Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Northrup A-17s and 17-A attack. Attack planes were first developed by the U. S., combine speed, light bombing, immense firing power to harry bombers and ground forces. Like the Seversky pursuits, the Air Corps' newest attacks-13 Curtiss twin-engined A-18s - were grounded last week by structural or motor trouble. The Northrup A-17s and 17-As have 190 m.p.h. speed, 600-pound bomb capacity, gunfire rate of 4,000 rounds per minute...
Sitting in the centre of his pirogue, with one leg doubled under him, Adam Billiot furiously dug in his homemade paddle when he heard the starting bomb, jumped into a five-yard lead, zoomed past the fishermen's huts along the banks, crossed the finish line first, amid piercing pirogue yells of "Ay-la-baaa." But the first prize of $200 was not for Adam Billiot. After finishing his four-mile sprint he discovered that the bomb that sent him off was a prankster's firecracker...
...Sabbath calm at turreted Windsor Castle, where King George, Queen Elizabeth and their daughters were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this...
...always been customary in Italy to plug mailboxes with heavy metal fittings on each State occasion, since for half a century Italians have been prone to "mail a bomb" timed to explode just as its intended object is scheduled to pass the mailbox. To this precaution against an old Italian custom was added last week search of sewers and cellars for bombs, banishment from Rome for a few days or jailing of all suspect persons, and an arrangement whereby one or more police agents stood in the hall of every building past which the German Realmleader was driven. Such...
...fair trial. Jurors had frankly admitted prejudice, and the record showed appalling contradictions. But when Altgeld said so in an 18,000-word pardon he was damned as a murderer, a communist, a demagogue, a foreigner, an anarchist, a thief, a liar, a madman, a knave, a fool, a bomb-thrower, a Nero and a coward...