Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European democracies all this looked suspiciously like the start of another frightening, methodical squeeze by the dictators. British stocks dropped, French bonds weakened, the Amsterdam market fell badly. The British Cabinet held a three-hour session, while British statesmen rushed about assuring their people that Great Britain would never, never give way to force. As the date of Führer Adolf Hitler's annual speech to the Reichstag approached (see p. 17), wild rumors circulated that the Führer would: 1) back up Friend Benito Mussolini in a Mediterranean showdown, 2) demand a redistribution of colonies...
...armies of Rebel Generalissimo Francisco Franco marched up to Barcelona on three sides last week and, with no more than a sniper's fusillade, the biggest city in Spain fell. No European military action comparable to it had taken place since the Prussians took Paris in 1871, and, according to all calculations, the Spanish Rebels like the Prussians, had won their...
...torn population soon faced the terrifying ordeal of hunger and air raids. By last autumn many an ardent antiFascist, his belly gnawed by hunger and his nerves frayed by bombs, began to wonder if, after all, the oppression of Fascism could be any worse. When, three days before Barcelona fell, the Loyalist Government called out all men to help build fortifications to withstand a siege, the city was war weary and apathetic. The job was quietly sabotaged. Many evaded the draft, many worked only halfheartedly. In the last few days before the fall, many Rebel sympathizers-the "Fifth Column"-openly...
...ominous, familiar rumble. Everyone knew what it meant but before anyone could get to the street, the walls buckled and the roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance to move before their adobe homes fell on them. Thousands more got into the streets only to be buried beneath falling buildings...
...about 5,000 square feet of interior murals done by WPA artists under the direction of many-minded Hilaire Hiler (pronounced Hillair Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting in the '20's and became good so fast that Parisian night clubs like the Jungle, the Grand Duke, the Jockey and the Manitou would have nothing but Hiler decorations...