Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, a mile away from the humming Justice Department arsenal, sat a burly, pale, bush-haired man who smiled a smile of utter content. None knew better than C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis how heavily this barrage of antitrust action must fall on his erstwhile chum, A. F. of L.'s William Green...
...Waitresses with white aprons carried away empty beer glasses. The crowd pressed toward the cloakroom and I followed, leaving many persons still in the hall. I entered a vestibule on the right of the cloakroom and handed over my coat check...
Promptly police went to work. Army sappers were rushed to clear away a ten-foot mass of debris. To forestall alarm or to help the search for dynamiters, blacked-out Munich was suddenly lit up. Someone started a wildfire rumor that lights meant peace: the Netherlands-Belgium offer had taken effect. Soon Germany's second hysterical false armistice was in full celebration. Police angrily cleared the streets and killed the hope...
...that Toffi has treated him "with an utter lack of chivalry," said he has paid her over $250,000. "There was no opportunity of 'giving' her money because she was always asking for it," he boomed. "She was always pestering and badgering me, so I sent her away to Budapest and Berlin...
...occasionally to breathe air; but as the mud dried and hardened, the lungfish was held fast at the bottom. Six months later, the can reached its destination, a biological supply house in Chicago. The can was opened, the cylindrical mold of dried mud delicately picked away, the lungfish removed. It was alive. The fish, gaunt from its fast, made a sort of barking noise by rapidly expelling air from its lungs. When placed in a tank it soon became spry as ever. (See the top 10 new species...