Word: civil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
...tightness with his money. There are few stories of his personal generosity, though it is a fact that any poor but promising poet can get a Picasso etching for his book by asking for it. He has certainly contributed a great deal to the Loyalist side in the Spanish civil war: the Guernica mural free, all proceeds from exhibiting it (to date about $5,000), at least two fully equipped fighting planes, and during the last few weeks a cash gift of 300,000 francs...
...participating in civil-disobedience campaigns, leathery old Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi (69), wife and disciple of the Mahatma. has served six prison terms. Last week, as other disciples deserted him (see p. 20), she arrived in Rajkot State to be disobedient again, was arrested for the seventh time...
LINCOLN AND THE CIVIL WAR IN THE DIARIES OF JOHN HAY-Edited by Tyler Dennett-Dodd, Mead...
...years ago Ralph Bates was just another energetic, down-and-out, class-conscious workingman, while Ernest Hemingway was an energetic, up-and-coming, self-conscious writing man. Today, Bates's Spanish civil war stories are better than Hemingway's. Bates lived revolution; when it came, he could almost write it with his eyes shut...