Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick southward thrust over the mountains to take Madrid was held up, since to attempt it would have been to risk attack from the rear. Thus this week there was a sense in which not only Premier Largo Caballero but also Generalissimo Francisco Franco had "just begun to fight"' -with approximately 100,000 Spaniards already killed...
They were hailed as brothers by Anarchist leaders, told that they could have the honor of immediately marching on to fight against the Whites while untenable San Sebastian went up in glorious flames. Snarled the Basque column commander: "We have not come to take orders but to give them...
...Puny Orphan Through His Own Winning Fight For Strength, Developed the World's Most Vital Editorial Technique...
...organization plan for which, since last spring, Baldwin has been soliciting stockholders' approval. Owner of 2,300 shares of common (currently worth $3.50 a share), Oldster Brady announced that his lawyers would ask the Philadelphia District Court for a rehearing on the plan, that if nobody else would fight it he would alone. Brady's objections to Baldwin's plan were two: 1) it would "virtually wipe out common stockholders"; 2) if reorganization had been necessary in 1935, when the plan was sanctioned by a special master, it did not follow that reorganization was still necessary...
...slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after another, provided him with girls when his passion for her ended. Although these figures are sometimes vividly seen, they tend to disappear or grow cloudy as the descriptions of the customs and habits of mind of the "slummies" interrupt the narrative...