Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...file members and 20,000 "militant members" made up of Generalissimo Franco's general staff, commissioned and non-commissioned officers in his Army, hand-picked pro-Franco members of the Falange and the Carlists. Swamped in this sweeping reorganization were Monarchists, militarists, conservatives, who watched post after post go to Falangists, saw Spain's foreign policy drawn nearer the Rome-Berlin Axis. As last week's celebrations marked the passing of more old faces from the scene, they also made it clear that the new figures were emerging, not from the Army, but from the Falange that...
...most painful of human ills. It is a nerve affliction which usually strikes one side of the jaw, occasionally both. The slightest stimulus on certain "trigger areas" of the face may set off lightning-like flashes of agony. Living in dreadful anticipation of the next attack, victims sometimes go weeks without shaving or washing their faces. Cause of tic douloureux is not definitely known. Tooth and sinus infections, circulatory disorders, sudden changes of climate have all been suspected...
Last year, when asked why he named his lovely new sloop Goose (reputedly a foolish fowl), 61-year-old Sailor Nichols chirped: "Because it seems a bit foolish to go into the keen six-meter competition at my age." Last week George Nichols demonstrated that he and his Goose were anything but foolish: they outsmarted the Scandinavians at their own game in their home waters, won the Gold Cup in three straight races for the second year in a row. On both sides of the Atlantic, Goose was hailed as the world's fastest small boat, George Nichols...
...Californians recall how, five years ago, Buchmanites claimed they had "settled" the longshoremen's strike, "the first strike in history in which Christ was called upon to act as arbiter." That strike went on long after Buchmanites had been guided to urge the longshoremen to forget their troubles, go back to work...
Cornered in his Stamford home, slovenly Heywood Campbell Broun, whose contract with the World-Telegram expires in December, joked: "Of course I can always go back to raising potatoes...