Word: flailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned in time to hear Laborite Lord Noel-Buxton flail the Government's Imperial policy-a policy which Earl Baldwin has been intermittently sponsoring since 1923 when he first became Prime Minister. Lord Noel-Buxton thundered that the Government was bungling its African relations, urged the Imperial Conference, meeting in London, to see to it that the peoples of the Empire were protected "regardless of race." Earl Baldwin said nothing...
Civilian Rule. The smell of spring survived the stench of corpses in Madrid last week. A few almond trees bravely retained their bloom as the Rightists continued to flail Madrid day after day with unremitting shellfire. And from Valencia, where Leftist Premier Francisco Largo Caballero was still seeking refuge, an order was sent to Madrid dissolving Madrid's Supreme Defense Junta, headed by formidable General José Miaja who for almost six months has been the Capital's all-powerful boss. Because Madrid had been shelled for 13 consecutive days Premier Largo Caballero felt that General Miaja...
...following year an operation stiffened her right ankle and a week later another operation stiffened her left ankle. Those operations corrected her club-footedness. But, although the deformities of the knee were overcome, the right knee "was practically flail." Determined to repair Miss T. S. to the utmost, Dr. Truslow stiffened her floppy right leg at the knee...
...last autumn) from the editorship of The American Mercury (TIME, Oct. 16). With a sturdy contempt for philosophers, metaphysicians and theologians ("They are specialists in penetrating the impenetrable, or they are nothing"), Mencken tramps into their jealously guarded sanctuaries and lays about him manfully with his 19th Century rationalist flail. Like its predecessor, Treatise on Right & Wrong purports to be an historical and comparative outline of human ethics; as before. Author Mencken is constantly distracted by the red herring of the Christian Churches. "All the branches of Christianity suffer by the fact that they seem to be unable to take...