Word: crushingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week began with an interview at the fountainhead of executive intervention, the White House, where President Green & colleagues set forth the three great grievances of striking bituminous coal-miners-police brutality, suppression by injunction and "gigantic conspiracies" by the Interests (railroads, power companies, banks) to depress coal prices and crush union labor (TIME, Nov. 28). They asked President Coolidge to call a conference of miners and operators; and to suggest that Congress investigate police strikebreaking, injunctions, conspiracies...
...cross a bald courtyard under whatever fire the convicts might loose. He telephoned to Governor Clement Calhoun Young in Sacramento, 25 miles away, to send over soldiers, bombs, artillery. He ordered all available riflemen to the prison wall and consulted with aides whether to starve out the revolt or crush it at once...
...goodly crush of people who had not seen a horse in years paid for that privilege last week in Manhattan. At Madison Square Garden was held the National Horse Show. About 1,000 horses (worth $3,000,000) were exhibited for glory, money prizes, cups, gay colored ribbons...
Paris. "Don't let me fall. "Don't let me fall." Gendarmes did not let her fall. Thus she was carried through the crush at Le Bourget field to face the official welcomers. Rushed to the Union Interallied for the first reception; still clad in knickerbockers; her only baggage a lipstick; she made her first official speech; thanks; 26 words...
...Mayor Walker reached Paris from Rome and flipped off the train in a chocolate crush hat, blue shirt and suit, green and brown tie, beige topcoat and lavender handkerchief dashed with brown and purple...