Word: alleyways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haze over Cuba last week, the advertised Terrorist week against the Government of Dictator Gerardo Machado detonated to an end. Dead were 20, all youths under 25. Cubans had so often seen the fantastic in murder that last week they believed every atrocious rumor whispered in an alleyway. But many a missing student had merely burrowed into hiding. Police walked the streets of Havana in pairs, carbines crooked under their arms. Newspapers were firmly gagged,* except the Administration's Heraldo de Cuba which growled: "The arm of popular will cannot be the bomb or the cowardly employed shotgun. With...
...crew's galley when the wave struck. It stove in the door, ripped open a steel bulkhead, and as the cooks crouched by the wall drove the stove and two half-ton boilers straight through the rear bulkhead. Seaman H. J. Johnston of Portsmouth was in the alleyway. Fifteen minutes later when the water had ebbed enough for an officer and a quartermaster to wade in, Seaman Johnston was found dead, smashed against the wall. On Christmas Eve they buried him at sea. Captain Trant read the service and they slid his body over the rail wrapped...