Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration, and all Soviet papers suddenly burgeoned with photographs of the rotund face, familiar to all Europe, under the caption: "The Stalinist Bearer of Peace." From Montreux Comrade Litvinoff modestly replied: "I shall continue to fight against the forces of war and aggression and go ahead with my work for peace, which is the only justification for the activities of a Soviet diplomat...
...Last week 6,000 tough Asturian miners marched down from the North to Madrid's assistance, as the Army rebels marched up from the South. Declared the Spanish Government: "Spanish citizens! The movement in insurrection has been subjugated absolutely and it is necessary not to lose the fight...
When at last the soldiers in the ranks refused to fight, Chen knew he was beaten. He told Chiang, through an emissary, that he would quit if Chiang would give him a high-sounding title under which he could honorably travel abroad. That night his Second Kwangtung Army having surrendered, Chen scuttled to a British gunboat, headed for British Hongkong where he has a tidy investment in real estate...
This meant that if the rest of Chen's men ventured to stand and fight, they were obliged to fight fellow-Kwangtungese. At this the Kwangtung Army fell completely apart. Dozens of Chen's chief officers, civil officials, his entire Cantonese air force of 60 planes, two torpedo boats and even the man he had picked for president of an independent Southwest Government fled the province. Wired one officer to dismayed General Chen: "Despite the danger of having my heart dissected and my eyes gouged out by you, I hereby dare to send you this final word...
Lawyer Hall was paid his $99,900 fee without question. But when he asked for $12,000 more, the embattled oil companies put up a fight, charging that Special Master Hall had tried to arrange an out-of-court settlement by which he would be cut in on the patents to the extent of $250,000. A U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals finally held: ''It is perfectly clear on the whole evidence that [Hall] betrayed his trust by attempting to deceive, intimidate and coerce a wealthy litigant . . . with the corrupt motive of gaining for himself an enormous...