Word: flings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia has not nearly reached her pre-War level of grain production. She will probably be buying grain before the next twelve months are out. But for the present Dictator Stalin, his authority absolute, can fling a total of perhaps 45,000,000 bushels where it will cause the most excitement. If he succeeds in breaking the world grain market to new lows, Russia will profit doubly because: I) her trade agents are already speculating ("selling short") to profit from the decline; 2) when she begins to buy grain she will get it cheaper than even her present "dumping" price...
...even been long enough for some to forget. Neither in this country nor in many of the continental nations of Europe which have experienced a great growth of education coeval with the growth of nationalistic impulse in the past decade, will the flower of the nation blindly fling themselves in the dust. Youth has lost his patriotism and gained in understanding. If there is martyrdom and dying for the country it will not be because of the glory of a flag...
...crowd gathered with itching palms before the Presidential Palace at Port-au-Prince. Tradition bade the President to appear, inquire whether his people had any grievance, listen to any complaints which might be made, and finally?this being the real point of the old Haitian custom?finally to fling several bagfulls of small but handy coins...
None, but everything went off to perfection. The Duc de Guise who caused a terrible street fight and bloody riot after the ceremony by unwisely ordering heralds to fling bagfuls of gold coins at the groveling and famished populace...
...city of Bombay a mob of "Untouchables" (the despised lowest class whose status Mr. Gandhi has tirelessly sought to raise) suddenly decided, last week, to fling themselves on the ground before the holy Nasik Temple and thus obstruct Lordly Brahmans from their worship. All India shuddered at reports that an Untouchable girl had slapped the face of a Brahman priest-far worse than a Negro wench's slapping a white bishop in Dixie. One hundred Untouchables were jailed...