Word: crushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have factions of hatred and prejudice and violence. . . No nation will survive where this factionalism is endured. . . It was Hamilton's conception that the Federal influence would crush out the factions. . . . Time has brought our appraisal of him but of the mists of misunderstanding and given us a measure of his true greatness...
...natural accidents?a sudden " crush " of Laurel's on the widowed first-love?the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South...
...Wembley Stadium was built to hold 120,000. Eighty thousand others, annoyed at their exclusion, forced the gates. Chaos followed, and the police had repeatedly to clear the field. Premature newspaper reports reported thousands injured in the crush. Actually twenty were taken to the hospital and only eight of these remained...
...Crush the weaklings near...
...klan", can spring up in America, and gain power enough to take the law into its own hands, there must be something wrong with the law. Like the Vigilantes which existed in the days of '49, this organization will only die when the state is strong enough to crush it, and punish all crimes as well...