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His strike had approached the proportions of the British general strike of 1926, which had boomeranged on labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their effort to catch the Kelsos red-handed had boomeranged on them and now what might be proof of their theory had vanished.

From Smugglers' Reef by Blaine, John