Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lands at 40 m. p. h., stops in 30 ft., gets 13½ mi. per gal. of fuel, can supposedly be flown with safety by a novice after two hours' instruction. Secretly tested for six months on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, the strange-looking craft was last week publicly demonstrated for the first time in Los Angeles, where its unconventional behavior alarmed experienced observers until they became used to it. "It leaped into the air," wrote one correspondent, "like a chicken going over a fence...
...Propaganda last week. His best Ethiopian atrocity: "On the night of May 31 wild Ethiopian tribesmen captured 4,000 head of cattle from an outpost in Italian Eritrea and carried off as slaves a number of men and women. The tribesmen mutilated several children who were abandoned bleeding on desert sands...
...hand of Rita Coates, teacher, when the Lynn. Mass, school committee intervened last month to say that Miss Coates could not have both her job and Axel. "This condemns me to the life of a spinster," mourned Rita Coates. "I have no choice unless I wish to desert my father and mother who are absolutely dependent...
Near Gondar meanwhile Donna Di Lauro, beauteous young wife of the local Italian Consul General, was pulled roughly off her camel by impetuous Ethiopians who detained her in the desert for two days-or so the Italian Government announced, loudly protesting this "outrage." For the rest of the week Rome rang with outrages. Ethiopians on the border of Italian Eritrea were charged with every petty villainy from "stealing an Italian shepherd's ten bulls'' to "arresting Ethiopians caught selling food to an Italian consul...
...private life last spring. But. on the very day that he planned to take his resignation to the White House, the Supreme Court rocked the New Deal with its NRA decision. Loyally pocketing his resignation, Mr. Kennedy went back to work because he was too good a policeman to desert his post when the sky seemed to be falling on the White House...