Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vienna, June 10--Bomb outrages by Terrorists seeking to overthrow the Fascist Government of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss left Vienna in a state of high nervous tension today, with further violence feared...
Public buildings were guarded heavily. Discovery of a bomb in the Chancellory yesterday caused additional guards to be placed around the building and persons entering were searched...
Alfonso of Spain brought Victoria Eugenie, his British bride of 28 years ago, a full measure of woe. An anarchist's bomb nearly killed her on her wedding day. She was obliged to attend bullfights which she hated. She could not help thinking most Spaniards outlandish and sinister. Revolution chased her pell-mell out of Spain three years...
...bank, the Colonel quickly becomes the most hated man in town. But nothing really hits him hard until his daughter turns out to be a different species of flower from the one the Colonel always considered synonymous with Southern womanhood. That breaks up his world. When a bomb brings down his unfinished cathedral on top of him it is almost an anticlimax...
...vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering a flock of chasers, each about the size of a small tugboat. The chasers scour the frigid waters until they spy a spouting whale, sneak up on it and let fly a harpoon bomb from a cannon. After the dead whale is pulled to the surface, it is inflated with air pumps, towed to the factory ship...