Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn in London people began to line up outside the stadium at Highbury where Aston Villa was going to play soccer against Woolwich Arsenal in the afternoon. When the turnstiles opened at 12 o'clock the line was a mile long. An hour later the gates closed, since the stadium was full, and the crowd outside began to fight. A hundred men were hurt. Women who fainted were passed back over the heads of the mob to the ambulance men working in the rear. Inside, Arsenal beat Aston Villa 4 to 1. The players were unhurt...
...Nicaragua shall not be the patrimony of Imperialists. I will fight for my cause as long as my heart beats. ... If through destiny I should lose, there are in my arsenal five tons of dynamite which I will explode with my own hand. The noise of the cataclysm will be heard 250 miles. All who hear will be witness that Sandino is dead. Let it not be permitted that the hands of traitors or invaders shall profane his remains...
...return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...
...suddenly attacked the strategic U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., took it and prepared to issue munitions, including 1,000 pikes he had foresightedly brought along, to the throngs of uprisen slaves he had pictured joining...
...virtually no slaves rose up. Instead Col. Robert E. Lee, then of the U. S. Army, marched up and recaptured the arsenal. Invested to the last with the dignity of intense conviction, John Brown was hanged in a hollow square of 1,500 infantry. His gallows-words were: "I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose...