Word: astraye
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...Fascist Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
...Views. Dr. Ruddock warns spyers into the abdomen that "the whole examination should be done with a fixed plan in mind, otherwise the wonderful natural pictures would tend to lead astray and thus prevent seeing the important points...
When the piece was finished, Piston was forced to admit that the Piano must have gone badly astray, and the audience adjourned en masse to Paine Hall for the rest of the recital...
...sadder than that, he would have seen public support of the Teachers' Oath Act. A public deliberately misinformed by powerful newspapers, a public deliberately led astray by self-appointed patriots, supporting by a confusion between nationalism and the dictates of common sense an act that outlaws free criticism and perpetuates existing political evil. Massachusetts no longer knows democracy...
...whom the Russian proverb describes as 'neither God's candle, nor Devil's broom.'. . . Our Constitution foresees the possibility of that situation-a deputy who has begun to kick. . . . The Government must organize new elections in a case like that. . . . If they have gone astray, get rid of them!" Russian wise-acres estimated that it would take about 24 hours for Mr. Stalin to "organize" the recall of any deputy who kicked...