Word: frowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charge!" was Mr. Faraday's next order and his mounted and foot police, using only their truncheons, tried to club into submission 8,000 gibbering, shrieking Arabs who attacked with knives and brickbats, dragged policemen from their horses which stampeded whinnying and brought a puckered frown to the brow of District Commissioner Crosbie who watched from a window overlooking the melee in Jaffa's main square...
...valiant last stand. With two out. Manager Cronin singled, went to second when Schulte drew a base on balls. Kuhel stepped to bat. A single would tie the score again. A stiffer blow could win the game. Manager Bill Terry walked over to "Pop" Luque with a worried frown. Luque scarcely noticed him. "I get heem," he promised, and turned toward the batter. Plump!- Strike one. Plump!-Strike two. Plump...
...Publisher Cuddihy's private charities are understood to be large. ) He was an early Hoover booster, has now reverted to Democracy. Sometimes he attends Tammany powwows on Long Island. In tastes as well as in faith R. J. Cuddihy differs from his oldtime employers. Mr. Cuddihy does not frown upon conviviality. He firmly believed that beer would balance the budget...
Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...hitting low, awarded the round to Schmeling. Then followed round after round of the kind of boxing which Schmeling-who usually plans to wear his opponents down slowly-likes best. But Baer's demeanor -his confident grins whenever Schmeling hit him, his backhand punches that made Schmeling frown and look at the referee- caused the crowd of 60,000 to wonder whether Baer was waiting rather than wearing down. In the tenth round, the crowd found...