dynamiter
Americannoun
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a person who uses dynamite or other explosives to blow things up.
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a person who thoroughly and suddenly destroys a specified thing.
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A fellow dynamiter named Matthew Schmidt also got life.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Philharmonic, he gradually broadened his repertoire to include a variety of musical styles; in opera the would-be dynamiter turned out to be an effective Wagnerian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Foxes are those who sell by mail; the dynamiter works by telephone.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of his heroes is flame-bearded Uncle Barbarossa, a dynamiter by trade who in off-hours spouts revolutionary speeches at his aged beagle Garibaldi.
From Time Magazine Archive
We don’t want to lose no lives on a skunk of a dynamiter like this feller must be.
From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas
But Gunman Birger, fingers-crossed, rabbit-footed, was away when the dynamiters called.
From Time Magazine Archive
To forestall alarm or to help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out in British Columbia, the Attorney General is investigating "dynamiters" and "foxes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether all these dynamiters were Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers is not known.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first of these is the action of Werner Horn, a retired German officer, which gained us for the first time the opprobrious epithet of "dynamiters."
From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von
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