Word: molotov
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...which guerrilla training has become an international activity. Today, with the help of a foreign "scholarship" and perhaps a forged passport, a young, aspiring revolutionary from any of several dozen countries may travel halfway round the world to learn the use of rifles and machine guns, the making of Molotov cocktails and the art of political kidnaping. Then, after several months or even years of training, he returns to his home country to put his education into practice...
...wake of black riots touched off by the assassination of Martin Luther King. "I said to him [the police superintendent] very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately and under his signature to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to issue a police order to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city...
Unlike conventional Molotov cocktails which must be lit before they explode, it appears the bomb used at Tufts utilized a bi-chemical mixture which would ignite on impact. Use of bombs of this type has been rare...
...horde of kids all armed with packages of sticky candy and plenty of wrappers. Another mau-mau Ph.D. didn't even need a gang. He would just turn up at the OEO office with a crocus sack full of "ice picks, switchblades, straight razors, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails and dump it on a desk, claiming he's just taken the stuff off 'my boys last night.' " Concludes Wolfe: "They'd lay money on this man's ghetto youth like it was now or never...
...Franco-Prussian War, le Général had a profound respect for the abilities of the Germans. On a visit to the Soviet Union in 1945, De Gaulle stopped off to see the battlefield at Stalingrad. For a long time, he stood mute before the incredible destruction. Molotov waited for his comment. Finally it came. "Un grand peuple," De Gaulle said somberly. "Un grand peupleles allemands...