Word: afresh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway...
Secretary Stimson did not say "outrage" but he set to work afresh on the whole Barlow case, with the hope of closing it out and forever eradicating a small patch of international prickly heat. The Post Office Department last week made sounds like a 3? postage stamp. From Capitol Hill, echo answered: "Pooh-pooh...
Fortunately for the Coast Guard, the pursued craft, found stranded and abandoned up the river, was a real rumrunner. Even so, the reckless rattle of Coast Guard bullets stirred afresh the anxiety of many a law-abiding yachtsman who had experienced the service's quick gunfire, its brusque raids, its salty backtalk. Protest after protest against officious bedevilment has been sent to the Coast Guard's squat red-brick headquarters in Washington. Invariably the Service has upheld its men for doing their duty...
Emaciated, bandy-legged Mahatma Gandhi is Most Holy. He lives on cold water and Indian leeks. Skinny, always nine-tenths naked, and to Occidentals often ridiculous in appearance, he yet evokes from myriads of Hindus the purest devotion, the blindest obedience Just now Gandhi is crusading afresh for a boycott of British goods. He has ulti-matumed that by 1930 India must be as free as Canada (TIME, Jan. 7) and time is getting short...
...naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...