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Word: fell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shot him five times. I shot him like a soldier who knows how to shoot, and I shot straight so as not to hit any innocent passerby. At the fifth shot he fell. He didn't say a word. There were only cries and convulsions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived Ukrainian republic. He played off the Poles against the Bolsheviki and the Bolsheviki against the Poles and, eventually, again fell from power, this time to flee to France, where he lived in Paris until slain there by M. Schwartzbard. Under his regime, it is charged, more than 50,000 Jews were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Reginald Smith, an Englishman, a reputed eye-witness of the crime, was called to describe the crime. Quoting Shakespeare, he ended his testimony by referring to Schwartzbard's expression as Petlura fell: "He wore an expression of 'exaltation mixed with anguish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Petlura was responsible. Even Ukrainian officers said so. His soldiers killed our people, shouting his name. One regiment had a band and it played while knives fell on the heads of innocent babies. Petlura could have stopped it, but he wouldn't listen to our pleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Freshman team also took four out of the first five places, when Moore sprinted away from Captain F. R. O'Brien '31 of Yale, who had been fighting Moore for first place, but fell back to third. Captain R. C. Aldrich '31 passed O'Brien and finished second. R. J. Hodges '31 took fourth place, followed by H. D. Everett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON HARRIERS LOWER RECORD IN DOUBLE-BARRELED VICTORY OVER YALE | 11/5/1927 | See Source »

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