Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloody gantlet at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp was reported last week in the Liberal News Chronicle of London. Two long ranks of Adolf Hitler's personal Schutzstaffel formed the gantlet, down which the 62 Jews were forced to run. "As they approached between the ranks, a hail of blows fell on them," said the News Chronicle. "As they fell, the Jews were beaten further. The orgy lasted half an hour. . . . Twelve of the 62 were dead, with skulls smashed. All the others were unconscious, some with eyes out and faces flattened in. ... Police, unable to bear the cries, turned their backs...
...Hungary last week the Cabinet fell (and rose again four days later) as a result of demonstrations in Budapest by grab crazy mobs who did not think that Hungary's 4,800-square-mile grab was enough. In Sofia, Bulgaria, grab fever rose high at week's end, the 19th anniversary of the Treaty of Neuilly. Through Sofia's streets day before the anniversary milled a defiant crowd of 20,000 who demanded land back from Rumania, Yugoslavia, Greece. Martial law was declared, firemen turned their hoses on demonstrators, 1,000 were arrested. Chances are that...
...slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana and sugar plantation laborers to keep communications open, evacuate the people to the coast. The rains fell harder. As though the soil were determined to wash back into the sea, avalanches of St. Lucia's black clay poured off the high ground. They blotted out roads, pushed telephone poles over, disrupted all travel and communication. One night an entire acre of ground and a building housing...
...first performance of Lefty was shattering, but next day no repentant Group directors fell prostrate before Odets. The directorate was still thumbs down on him. Pressure from the Group's actors was necessary to get them to produce Awake and Sing! After Awake and Sing! clicked, the Group rushed Lefty uptown, and Odets became Broadway's man-of-the-year...
Half way across the street our gallant here slipped and fell, spraining his ankle in the process. The old woman, still standing and unhurt, helped him to his feet and guided him safely to the opposite sidewalk...