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Word: unstrapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aimed principally at the vulnerable high power system. Twenty percent of Bolzano's electricity was knocked out in the first two days. Whole factories shut down. Cars belonging to pro-Italian Tyroleans were bombed. Only one man was killed, a road worker who was blown apart trying to unstrap a bomb from a tree along the Brenner highway. But police averted a major disaster when they discovered and defused a bomb only an hour before it was set to go off under a dam at Selva dei Molini. The dam's collapse would have flooded the entire valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Trouble in Tyrol | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

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