Word: carting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night over a simple coffin which had arrived by truck. Officially the Government of dictatorial King Alexander frowns on Sarajevo's bland assassinophilia, but His Majesty's police know better than to try 'to thwart such resolute citizens. After the all-night vigil, peasants put the coffin on a cart, decked it with flowers. On either side of the road brawny youths and robust girls of Sarajevo's so-called "athletic associations" mounted vigorous guard. Slowly the cart creaked to Sarajevo's cemetery and there proud gravediggers buried the bones of the archconspirator who instigated Student Gavrilo Princip to assassinate...
According to Bridegroom Rieder, his spouse fooled the Germans by means of duplicate carts of hay having horses exactly alike. In the second cart under the hay lay Allied men about to be smuggled out across the lines. After German soldiers had probed the first cart with pitchforks, Heroine van Houtte, then 24 and passing for a buxom peasant lass, contrived that the Germans should not notice while the second cart was driven ahead of the first...
...Meurthe-etMoselle, where equally large-scale mining operations were supplying the French with much of their own raw material for ordnance and ammunition. So long as the French left Briey alone the Germans would let Dombasle alone; what hothead was there who would want to upset the apple cart under these circumstances? Of course, it the French and Germans had leveled the other's smelters, the war would have ended sooner. And so would war-time profits. That was that. Briey and Dombasle came unscathed through...
...March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west...
...Patrick Slater, an auto-biographical novel with the Ontario countryside as a background. The author and his mother came over from Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Toronto when it was a booming frontier town. While there, he saw its public hangings and followed the plague cart which took his mother's dead body away. Later he went to the bush lands of upper Canada and became a part of the life of those stout-hearted Irish homesteaders...