Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone daring to suggest that the German army, perhaps the best disciplined in the world at that time, did not spend all its time committing atrocities was of course "pro-German." Such courageous men as Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, who tried to remain clear-sighted in the face of hysteria, who protested America's entry into the War, were, naturally, traitors-though history has proved them right and proved the rest of us a gullible group of limp-wits, victims of the most obvious propaganda...
...long overdue, widely advertised, win-the-war offensive of Generalissimo Francisco Franco began at dawn one clear, cold day last week in western Catalonia. Hardest fighting took place in the mountainous section near Tremp, where snow was so deep that communications bogged and the temperature was so low that water froze in the cooling jackets of machine guns. A second, lighter attack, believed to be merely a diversion, took place in the flatter country near the Segre River...
...Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, former Congresswoman from Illinois and daughter of Mark Hanna, filed a civil suit against some 400 defendants to clear up old claims and establish positive title to the famed Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado, which she bought last February for a reported $500,000. Some of the defendants: Scout Kit Carson (once stationed near the Trinchera as commandant), Presidents James Buchanan, Chester Alan Arthur, William McKinley...
...Fairfield home, where he was "ill," Mr. Coster was fingerprinted. "Testy," he grumbled at the proceedings. Twelve hours later the reason for his grousing became clear. Tipped off by a man who had once worked with Musica and recognized Coster's picture in the papers, Mr. McCall had matched Coster's fingerprints with Musica's and found them identical...
...occasion for exercising them." In spite of this illuminating introduction, readers will still find her poems difficult. The main difficulty for U. S. readers will probably be that she writes in a language in which every word carries its fullest literate meaning. For this reason, language that would seem clear in Shakespeare or Mother Goose may seem obscure in Laura Riding...