Word: bombardment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that the Nanking Government should not "lose face" in China by making these promises, Minister MacMurray assured Nationalist Huang-Fu that the U. S. State Department is "willing to express regret" that it was necessary for a U. S. river gunboat to bombard Nanking during the troublous times...
...having to fight our way out of it. ... There is war in Nicaragua. It is not the war of the American people. ... If the President can send our Marines to wage war in Nicaragua the President can send an army and the navy to Great Britain and bombard London tomorrow. . . . etc., etc., etc." The House heard much oratory of this kind from excitable members. But nothing happened. Leaders of both parties were content to let the Administration work out its own salvation in policing Nicaragua. (See page...
...glee of the carousing students as they flee away to the boat landings. Again there are the boomings of curfew cannon warning sailors, slaves and soldiers off the dreamy streets. Again the fortifications of the town ring with the shots of Jean and Pierre Lafitte as the two pirates bombard the village in the dead still night...
...What town do the French bombard almost nightly...
...follows: "I had the situation well in hand in Syria. . . . Then we were attacked at Damascus by rebels . . . and as I could not surrender the town there had to be fighting in the streets. . . . The British consul very nearly provoked a panic when I told him that I must bombard the Moslem quarters of the town. . . . The romantic versions of the affair in the English press indicate that somebody wanted to give the public its money's worth. . . . The French Government has always received full reports from me, except during three successive days when the cable service was interrupted...