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Word: grado (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while the Asturians still had munitions. For many weeks the city and its garrison were entirely cut off, every man limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west was able to chop through a corridor 18 miles long, in some places only 1,000 yd. wide, to bring men, munitions and food into Oviedo. Still besieged on three sides was Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander, but there was plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: 14 Months | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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