Word: foment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrested, sentenced to life imprisonment. Elected to the Cortes, he was released and permitted to take his seat. When he was 61, in 1930, he tried revolution again, spent three months in jail. In 1934 Largo Caballero was hurled into jail a third time, charged with helping foment the Asturian miners' revolt...
Sometimes he would step into a foment of angry words, suggest that the point be suspended, direct the talk elsewhere. Or, smiling warmly, Marshall would invite all to an interlude of tea, American style, with pastries and sandwiches...
...still harbor Nazi spies, take Nazi money, and even spend Persian money to help the Germans from within. Last week the British seriously suspected that a looming famine in wheat-rich Persia was the work of wealthy, pro-Nazi Persians, who had cornered domestic grain and withheld it to foment unrest around the British and Russians...
Thirdly, Attorney General Biddle has ordered the Federal Grand Jury to investigate the conspiracy to foment the riots and will prosecute to the limit of the law. Mayor Jeffries of Detroit has condemned the Hitler facties used on the Negroes...
...picked up a few more yen by teaching Spanish and Filipino dialects at the Imperial University of Tokyo. Under the tutelage of hoary old Mitsuru Toyama, founder of Japan's fabulous Black Dragon Society, The Viper organized Kapatiran Anak Ng Bayan, a secret society whose aim was to foment uprisings in the Philippines...