Word: dumdum
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...that time, though, the Man of the Year was fully in the making. He flashed off cables smoking hot with pathos, righteousness, defiance and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger which made front pages throughout Christendom. It was sheer genius for Haile Selassie to deny that Italians used dumdum bullets instead of charging them with that military offense. It was again genius for him to cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered by the Emperor never to apply discourteous epithets to Benito Mussolini. Finally only genius could enable the Emperor to put himself-a frail, exquisite...
Italians charged that Ethiopians were firing dumdum bullets from rifles and machine guns made in England, Belgium and the U. S. last week. The compliment was returned by U. S. Presbyterian Missionary Doctor Robert W. Hockman of Jijiga. Said he: "Even the use of dumdum bullets-and I am certain they are being used-does not affect the Ethiopian warriors, who by tradition are accustomed to all sorts of the most unspeakable barbarity. This country cannot be overcome by mechanized armies. It is remarkable to see thousands of warriors spring from the grass and come from behind rocky hills when...
...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...