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“Sometimes a levee would go in the night, somewhere upriver. In the morning, the rumor would spread that the Army Engineers had dynamited it to relieve the pressure on the city.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2021

By then, developers had dynamited the teeming coral gardens to build fancy beach resorts.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2012

The city had dynamited to the ground every building in the near north side's Pruitt-Igoe project, nicknamed "the monster."

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the many Finnish ski patrols trying to cut the Leningrad-Murmansk railway made its way back to Finland after a nine-day trip and reported it had dynamited the railroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

I stood in Peronne which the Germans had dynamited with the greatest care.

From The A.E.F. With General Pershing and the American Forces by Broun, Heywood