Word: againe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Time and again, in the payment of claims, when the spectre of death has darkened the door, have I, as the representative of my company, been the ray of sunshine that has driven away the clouds of despair. . . .
To this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair...
Mr. Hull made no threat, but again his language was uncharacteristically strong: "Astonishing theory," "the proposition scarcely requires answer" etc. And his new words, widely read in Mexico, filled Mexicans with indignation and foreboding.
Pilot Woods calculated his landing perfectly. The only thing he did not calculate correctly was the intention of the Japanese. The Japanese dived again & again, spraying the downed plane with machine-gun bullets. The transport's crew and passengers went overboard into the river and the Japanese planes fired...
Year ago, the 1,650-ton Spanish Leftist destroyer José Luis Diez limped into Falmouth, England, seriously damaged by Rightist air bombs. Most of her crew of 60 left the ship, claiming that they would be shot as "Reds" if they returned to Rightist Spain, as "deserters" if taken...