Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through calisthenics which lasted three hours in the morning, three and a half in the afternoon; men found with cigarets, forced to eat them; men asking to go to the latrine, dosed with castor oil. Another allegation: Negroes in the mess hall were forced to crawl and bark like dogs before they were...
...three months, SPBoss W. Stuart Symington has barked threats of government-subsidized competition at the Aluminum Co. of America. Last week, his bite proved milder than his bark. He approved a five-year lease to Reynolds Metals Co., Alcoa's only competitor, of the government-owned Hurricane Creek and Jones Mill plants in Arkansas. But there were no provisions for any subsidy in the lease, the first negotiated by RFC for any government-owned aluminum plants...
...reindeer's milk, was swiftly taken in hand by the first Bolshevik missionaries in 1921. The Tuvinians had no written language. The Bolsheviks gave them one based on the Russian alphabet, then introduced a proper selection of newspapers, magazines and books. The Tuvinians had lived mostly in bark tepees and felt yurts (tents); they followed their herds from pasture to pasture. The Bolsheviks collectivized the pastures, transformed the nomads into livestock farmers, built motor roads, distributed sewing machines, phonographs and radios, promoted cities like the Tuvinian capital, Kizilkhoto (I.e.,"Redtown,v pop. 10,000). The Bolsheviks put even Buddhist...
...practical Hollanders exploited the archipelago as one vast plantation, funneling its pepper, coffee, rubber, tin, oil and cinchona bark into world trade instead of their own, less voracious home market. They neither westernized nor Christianized the old (mainly Mohammedan) cultures. They did not get around to abolishing slavery until just before the U.S. did, gave the Indonesians no voice in government until this century...
...final days of the siege, the people of Vicksburg ate rats, cane shoots and bark. For 47 days Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ringed the city with 75,000 Union troops. Cannon balls crashed in; the sound of musketry seldom died. Finally the city surrendered. The date was July 4, 1863. After that, for the people of Vicksburg, the Fourth of July was never a day to be celebrated...