Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press, Minister Konitza made the following statement: "The Italians have many admirable qualities and are a great nation, but God Almighty, in His inscrutable design, has deprived them of all sense of chivalry. Just when our Queen gave birth to a child, the Italians dealt this blow...
...days they had occupied all the important points of the country, with casualties of only 21 killed, 97 wounded. The Albanian Army vanished into the fastnesses of Albania's Dinaric Alps where, unless the Sons of the Eagle (as the Albanians call themselves) have changed since the Turks dealt with them for five centuries, they can be expected to put up a guerrilla warfare until Kingdom Come...
...literary career of heavy-jowled, bearded, 48-year-old Elliot Paul might be pointed as moral for expatriates. Living in Europe most of the time since 1925, he has published eight books; all except one dealt with Americans. But the only success among them was the one with foreign characters: The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, which told the tragic story of Santa Eulalia, where Elliot Paul lived from 1931 until his last-minute departure aboard a German cruiser...
...recognize Czecho-Slovakia as part of Germany. Minister Wilbur Carr was told to close his legation in Prague, come home. But other branches of Franklin Roosevelt's Government had to face facts. They took steps which not only recognized Adolf Hitler as CzechoSlovakia's new ruler but dealt him backhand blows...
When bespectacled, downright Republican Frank Dwight Fitzgerald upset pious Democrat Frank Murphy in Michigan's gubernatorial election last November, he dealt a sad blow to New Deal pride. After turning out the man who turned him out in 1936, Governor Fitzgerald set about undoing (mainly by budgetary starvation) much of Mr. Murphy's Little New Deal. Last week a prevailing virus gave a new turn to Michigan politics...