Word: guard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been suffering from a well nigh complete nervous breakdown, was reported to be nearing convalescence. She declared that she lost consciousness after the volley which killed her family and wounded her, and awoke to find herself jolting along in the peasant cart of one Tschaikovski, a Red guard, who later told her that he was a member of the firing squad but had subsequently covered her with a pile of rags, while the corpses of the murdered Romanoffs were dragged away to be destroyed by acid...
...appearances the excessively freedom-loving Riffi, each of whom is accustomed to guard his personal freedom with his own rifle, cannot be made to covet the blessings which might or might not flow in Morocco under a Franco-Spanish administration...
...Admiral Nicholas Horthy is Regent for this "kingless kingdom." Almost certainly a majority of the multi-national citizens of what is now Hungary look up to the House of Habsburg as the one authority under which they have ever been peaceably united. France and her allies have stood guard sleeplessly since the War, lest "the heir apparent," Prince Otto of Habsburg (still a child and residing in Spain with his mother, the former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary), be "restored," or the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg seize the throne...
...always completely with the laboring class. But the British Labor Party is pledged to secure the nationalization of the British mining industry. Former Laborite Premier Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the Labor Party, has moreover begun to attract the support of Mr. Lloyd George's remaining "corporal's guard" of Liberals. The present government is definitely Conservative, definitely "Capitalistic." In a word, the economic crisis of last week, was inextricably bound up with the political struggle between Laborites and Conservatives?the two predominant factions in the House of Commons...
...whip hand over the Riff, and that Abd-El-Krim, if he did not want to be wiped out, must disarm the Riffi, go into exile himself, exchange all prisoners, and, after renouncing his assumed title of Sultan, recognize "the true sultan of Morocco", whom the French and Spanish "guard" in vassalage to themselves...