Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard his deputies start shooting their real guns. The crowd fled shrieking down the street in all directions. The deputies kept shooting. Bodies began to drop-three, five, ten, a score. "For God's sake stop firing!" Sheriff Adkins says he shouted. But already a lot more blood had been shed in the textile war of the Carolinas. Three men were dead. There were 24 wounded (mostly in the back), including a woman. One of the wounded men died before the Marion mill whistle shrieked its next day's warning. Three more were dying. Sheriff Adkins...
...convicts' fortress. But the masonry had held. The militia had to retreat and wait for a 75-millimeter field piece, an armored tank. When these weapons arrived, the cellhouse was stormed again. But this time there came no answering fire. Inside, five dead bodies on the blood-sopped floor told the end of the story...
...other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death and Patriotism, bootleg food under police noses; when two mutilated soldiers symbolically reveal the blood beneath the flag waving...
...flesh-and-blood house in which I will have to live for the balance of my life. I have occupied it up to the present time...
Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...