Word: dumdum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utterly shocked and totally unsympathetic Czechoslovaks, DumDum mer Vuciterna growled an explanation: "I shot him because of a blood feud. We have many in Albania. I did only what any Albanian would. Our code of honor demands a life for a life...
...carried a revolver charged with poisoned dumdum bullets and also a hand grenade which I had saved from the War. I intended either to shoot Mussolini or to bomb him, whichever seemed surest of success. ... I told none of my friends. I had no accomplices. I just threw the bomb. I knew that if it killed Mussolini I should be killed. ... I am sorry the bomb only wounded a lot of men in the street. . . . My temperament has always been profoundly misogynistic [woman-hating...
...brakes hissed, and as the train stopped a young man stepped off, greeted his mother on the platform with a laugh, told her, still laughing and grimacing, how the Indians had shot down his wife and mother-in-law, and mangled their three children with dumdum bullets. "Ha! Hahaha!" cried the demented man, "Hahahahaha. . . ." The dead included all but three of the armed train guards. Some 50 adults and children were murdered; but it was established that the Indians did not set fire to the train until all non-wounded passengers had climbed out. As the cars blazed...
...young man dressed in a neat brown suit, awaited the Premier's car at the Porta Pia. His slightly bulging coat pockets held four hand grenades which he had saved from the days when he fought for Italy in the World War. One trouser pocket was full of dumdum bullets. The other held a dumdum-loaded revolver and 60 lire ($22) in small bills...
These nobly befuddled Poles, having continued their celebration and refused to be ejected for almost a month, alleged with great presence of mind last week that their sortie had been provoked by a lone Lithuanian private, who had wandered into Poland and been found with dumdum bullets in his pocket...