Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the approach of these forces, a hush fell over Haiti and quiet was temporarily restored. But from Congress came a menacing rumble as critics of U. S. policy in the Caribbean gathered for a new attack...
...Arkansan Ozarks last winter came Connie Franklin, a shell-shocked War veteran escaped from the Arkansas Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He worked as a farm hand, wooed 16-year-old Tillir Ruminer. One evening last March they set out along a lonely path to be married. Suddenly nine men fell upon them. Tillir the attackers raped. Franklin they emasculated, tossed to death on a flaming woodpile...
...agreement (in March) with U. S. oil interests concerning the marketing of Russian oil. In April he sat in on an American Petroleum Institute oil restriction program, gave tacit approval to U. S. attempts at oil rationalization. But the restriction program, in its nation-wide aspect at least, fell through, and in August Sir Henri suddenly shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard Oil Company of New York, with an invasion of Socony's own territory. Throughout New England, and in and around New York, appeared filling stations selling Shell gasoline. Marketed by Shell Union Oil Corp., which, although...
Wild ducks usually look where they are flying. Wild ducks seldom fly across Main Street in Miami, Okla. On Thanksgiving Day, a wild duck did fly across Main Street, Miami, struck a wire, fell stunned at the feet of one H. H. Green. He killed it, congratulated himself...
...Manhattan, Mildred Cooper, nurse, was pursued by a man, fell down. When a policeman bent over to help her up, she bit his hand...