Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Fascist Mola was forced to withdraw many of his troops from the Guadarrama front to tackle a dangerous situation in his rear. San Sebastian and Bilbao were still in Loyalist hands. With hostilities ceasing in the Barcelona region, Loyalists might be able to launch an attack at his rear. Out of the ground to defend these Basque cities for the Loyalists poured the Communist miners of Oviedo, hurling homemade bombs of dynamite, slashing with knives. General Mola's attack was beaten...
...Skewes Saunders, an Englishman who had previously been knocked unconscious when he resisted search. I noticed one bandit behind a tree about 75 yd. from my car and another behind a rock nearby, both with rifles pointed on us. ... I became resigned to the situation." Aboard a launch on his way to the Chesapeake Bay fishing grounds off Solomons Island, Md., Ohio's husky, 63-year-old Senator Alvin Victor ("Vic") Donahey was standing beside the small mast when it was struck by lightning. Knocked unconscious for half an hour, the Senator was badly burned on the hands...
...Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic ex-M. P. for her 18-ft. motor launch in which he proposes to go swankly chugging on the Thames at Richmond...
...little tub appeared at Georgetown, anchored four miles off the beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped for a fight. Shouted Captain George Black Osborne: "We're outside the three-mile limit. Get out or we'll sink...
Particularly bitter about his White House friend's failure to launch an adequate housing program. Editor Moley rose before the National Association of Manufacturers in Manhattan last fortnight, blamed "petty bickerings" and "inordinate ambitions" inside the New Deal...