Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some strikers were milling aimlessly about a West Virginia mining camp. They lacked a leader. Down beside the creek, the road was guarded by State machine-gunners...
Retorted the little old woman: "Ye've no orders t'keep the creek clear." And up to her waist in water she waded into camp to rally the strikers, to lead them...
...before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter who killed him, or strike the enemy's breastworks while under fire, or steal a horse tied to a lodge in an enemy's camp, etc." Aleek-chea-ahoosh, as any student of Crow would know by his name (Plenty-coups-Many Achievements) counted many a coup. He and his braves served with General Crook against the Sioux (1886); in the fight on the Rosebud, Aleek-chea-ahoosh had two horses shot under him. Farsighted...
...their way, leaving charred dead acres in their wake. Virginia's Natural Bridge National Park lost 9,000 acres of timber; the Shenandoah National Park, 2,000 acres. Sizzling and snapping up Black Mountain in the Purgatory Range, flames leapt over into Kentucky forests, destroyed a lumber camp. Villagers in widely scattered mountain districts were alarmed. Firefighters deployed by thousands along the Alleghenies, prayed for rain...
...undesirable alien; one after the other the countries of Europe ejected him. Finally he was deported from Spain to the U. S. In January 1917 he landed in Manhattan. When the Russian Revolution broke he had a hard time getting back to Russia, was interned "in a prison camp in Canada for a month. Triumphant was his arrival in Petrograd. He was made People's Commissar for foreign affairs; when Kerensky fell and Lenin came into power Trotsky was second in command. Lenin died at the height of his popularity, and Death canonized him. But Trotsky lived...