Word: gophering
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...Lerroux first smashed the Catalan revolt (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week he turned on the pure class war provided by Largo Caballero. As fast as Lerroux jailed anarchist committees, new ones arose. Revolt kept ducking for cover, popping out in a new place, like a prairie gopher. It made soldiers and police trigger-nervous but they remained stanch for Lerroux. At week's end they had jailed Largo Caballero, silenced the rebels' guns everywhere except in the northern province of Asturias, where revolt traditionally dies hard...
...city of Gibbsville, Pa. (pop.: 24,032), battening on the anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called the Slump. In a story of only three days, John O'Hara succeeds in covering as much ground about Gibbsville as Sinclair Lewis did in describing Gopher Prairie (Main Street) in three years. He writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality...
Near Los Angeles a hawk seized a snake which was consuming a gopher, carried it aloft, striking a high tension wire which electrocuted all three. The wire fell, started a forest fire...
...angry knots. Dr. Ditmars watched impassively. "Let them fight it out," said he. "That's the only way they'll get used to each other." At length Beelzebub crawled off into a corner of the cage, his head bloody & swollen. Dr. Ditmars fed him a six-foot gopher snake, turned a hose on his conqueror...
Iowa has always been the rough spot in Minnesota's schedule. In their new stadium they spoiled once more the Gopher's chance for a Conference Championship. Iowa 9, Minnesota...