Word: hurl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philosophy library, selling their lives dearly among the Classics. In an international war, such as that of 1914-18. the opposing commanders do not order their airmen to bomb the enemy G. H. Q., and thus are not bombed themselves. This week the Whites were so unorthodox as to hurl bombs into the very courtyard of the G. H. Q. in Madrid and astonished General Miaja barely escaped, his life intact but his illusions shattered. After G. H. Q. had been bombed obviously there was no safety in Madrid. The U. S. State Department radiophoned orders to Charge...
...policy. The best Major Atlee and 40 Labor M.P.s could do was to sign a protest against the German Government's execution of a German Communist last week in Hamburg, and thus arouse individual British Labor sympathizers to chalk London Streets last week with anti-Nazi slogans and hurl bricks through the windows of new German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop. Brick-throwing Laborite Miss Ruth Ellen Gastar screamed in police court: "The people of the British Government wine and dine with Ribbentrop, but the British people do not want these Nazi murderers...
...building and furniture. Blacksmiths, carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, metal-workers, and mechanics are in demand. Besides the customary machines the Maintenance Shops have engines that drill square holes, air pumps which suck away shavings, steam heaters to soften lumber, and knife-edge power wood cutters which, if misrun, could hurl a razor-like slug of tool steel right through the operator. Roofing, metal shaping, forging, pipe drilling, and key making, are some of the activities at the river-front shops. In the familiar yellow building can be done anything from covering shades to making cardboard pillars for Fogg...
...Realmleader, might lose that privilege and even be sent packing back to Moscow. Packing back to Berlin with the fervent curses of the Bolsheviks in his ears would then be sent Ambassador Graf Friedrich von der Schulenburg, an exasperatingly bland German. No matter what insults Soviet newsorgans hurl at Hitler week after week, Schulenburg is never instructed to protest, turns up smiling at Bolshevik receptions, refuses to let Communists get his goat...
Austrian Surprise. Italy was raised definitely out of the "wop" class in 1934 when German moves to seize Austria, culminating in the Nazi assassination of plucky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, caused Benito Mussolini to hurl Italian forces up to the Austrian frontier, warn Adolf Hitler by telephone to keep hands off and assume the protectorship of Austria, which Italy has maintained ever since...