Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Letters in recent issues of your lively magazine [TIME, April 24, et seq.] have protested against sending men under 40 or over 40 to fight in the next war, that there may be no dearth of fathers. Excellent! Let the next war be won by women past 45, that absolutely useless class! Having been for the last decade a widow in this group, fighting at the front would be a welcome diversion...
...square-mile province of North Schleswig, Denmark owns territory that, from 1864 to 1918, belonged to Germany. Several times during the last few years the German press has indicated that some day North Schleswig would be returned to the Reich. While Britain indicated last month that she would fight if Denmark were invaded, the Danes know that the German Army could probably be in Copenhagen before the British could leave Dover. The urgent necessity for Denmark is not to arouse the German Führer...
Lieut. General Robert H. Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, mustered 15,000 troops, 7.300 policemen, and 700 aviators to counter the expected Jewish reaction. Jews have spilled little blood in retaliation for Arab terrorism, but the British "betrayal" made many of them fighting mad. Indignant manifestoes were loudly cheered at mass meetings: "Palestine Jewry declares this betrayal policy will never materialize. Palestine Jewry will fight it with all its forces." In Jerusalem 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones battled club-swinging police. Toll: 135 Jews and five constables injured; one constable killed. Most Jews regretted the actions...
Between its third and fifth sessions, the fight of Stalin and Trotsky rocked the Party, involved more people. Party membership grew fast: 735,881 by 1924; 1,260,784 by 1930; 2,800,000 (including candidates...
...game culminated a two week round-robin fight for the Yearling dormitory title in which the whole Yard participated...