Word: fell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troopers cursed. Mr. Scherf ordered a volley over the heads of the "Wobblies." They did not wobble. The next volley, point blank into the close-packed marchers, brought shrieks, confusion a halt. Bodies began dropping to the ground?one, two. As the "Wobblies" retreated, more of the wounded fell out. Five died, 20 were wounded, including two women in men's clothing...
...bloodshed. Mr. Rockefeller has no interest in the Columbine property (Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.). Nevertheless, Wobbly Palmer's cry echoed in far Manhattan, where Communists appeared with accusing placards* to picket the Standard Oil Building at No. 26 Broadway. Clerks, steel workers from a new skyscraper, pugnacious office boys fell upon and manhandled the demonstrators...
...pray," said Father Projuarez huskily, when he was led out. As General Cruz nodded, the priest fell on his knees, clasped a crucifix to his breast, prayed briefly. Rising, he walked resolutely to the garden wall, turned his back upon it, and extended his hands in the gesture of benediction, crying: "May God have mercy on you all!" An instant later the listening crowd outside heard three crisp commands: "Ready . . . Aim . . . Fire...
...Naples students emitted lusty cries of "Down with the Croats!" In Venice roiled crowds attempted to stage a riotous demonstration in front of the French and Jugoslav Consulates, engaging in a pitched battle with the police, their obstructors. After night fell they made a wild but fruitless dash by gondolas on the Jugoslav consular edifice...
Besides his achievements along these lines, Peter was the true founder of the Russian Empire that endured in solitary state for two centuries, and only fell in the overthrow of Nicholas in 1915. His war with Sweden that gave him, after the Battle of Pultowa, the hegemony of Northern Europe, was one of the greatest military campaigns of history, and the edifice which Peter founded was a lasting tribute to the genius and leadership...