Word: hoists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after Stalin's hoist by his own bootstraps, the Soviet press announced that Russia was concentrating no troops in the Ukraine, no naval forces in the Black Sea. The day after that Russia recognized Nazi control of Norway, Belgium, Yugoslavia. This week the U.S.S.R. announced recognition of the Naziphile Government of Iraq...
...revolutionist. She is more of a belated Victorian with a full Victorian concern with moral problems. Last year she told Irita Van Doren: "I would lead the revolution myself if I were sure I'd get the right heads on my pike." The heads that Ellen Glasgow would hoist would please few revolutionists. No group is without them and no group has a monopoly of them. Ellen Glasgow has been thrusting at them since she started writing. They are called intolerance, injustice, inhumanity...
...British light cruiser Leander, operating with a New Zealand naval squadron, came on a merchant ship flying the British Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built...
There were two hangings at Pentonville Prison last week, but the Pentonville bell did not toll, the chief warden did not hoist a black flag to the prison masthead. Just curt sheriff's and coroner's notes pinned on the prison door told of the death by hanging of Jose Waldberg, 25, and Karl Heinrich Meier, 24. Their only distinction: being the first enemy spies to be executed in Great Britain during...
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