Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the civil war broke last July, Mola was virtually in retirement at Pamplona. One of the first leaders of the rebellion was General José Sanjurjo who was also killed in an accident, flying from Lisbon. Mola was among the first to recognize the leadership of Francisco Franco, who gave him command of practically the entire northern sector of Rightist activity. At the time of his death, Mola was responsible not only for the siege of Bilbao but for the siege of Madrid as well. With no capable successor to hand, Generalissimo Franco split Mola's command...
...Because I was glad to be alive," he wrote, "I bought more handkerchiefs than I needed. . . . Another shell broke in the street, and this time we heard a boy screaming six or eight times, each time weaker than the last. . . . 'Show me some scarfs,' I said to the clerk...
...truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator was connected to this mobile supply, and the truck proceeded to a special train which Fred Snite Sr. had hired. A baggage coach contained a gasoline-driven dynamo and an extra respirator in case Fred Jr.'s broke down...
...much at home in navigation as in music. For years the U. S. Navy used his Elements of Navigation, written in 1895. He wrote three children's books: Sea Yarns for Boys, Afloat with the Flag, and The Last Cruise of the Mohawk. When the Spanish-American War broke out, Henderson commanded the first detachment of naval militia to enter Federal service since the Civil...
Inside "The Yacht Club," midtown Manhattan nightspot, a lady bouncer named Lois de Fee (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ib.) claimed that little Lew Brice, Comedienne Fanny's brother, suddenly turned on her and gave her a rabbit punch, then blacked both eyes, broke her nose. Arrested, Brice claimed Bouncer de Fee started...