Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sloe-eyed, soft-spoken Generalissimo Francisco Franco of the White Armies, realizing the difficulty of moving on Madrid through the Guadarrama Mountains of the North, transferred his headquarters within easier distance of the main line from Toledo to Madrid. Government troops, disorganized and poorly led, made brave counter-attacks that got nowhere, abandoned well-constructed trenches for villages impossible to hold, were shot down in their tracks while retreating, and occasionally deserted in groups...
...slept as hard as usual. Suddenly in the early hours of the morning there was an explosion. Then another and another. Just how many bombs went off nobody knew. Five or six unexploded bombs were discovered. One bomb wrecked part of a hotel. Another blew up the chief water-main serving the northern part of the city. Fifteen fires by explosions started in various places. Bombed and burned with a loss of 1,000,000 pesos was Parsons Hardware Co., only a quarter of a mile from the great tinder box of the President's Malacañan Palace...
...proletarian factory workers and other small-salaried employees on a sliding scale in exactly the proportion that French living costs rose-as they are sure to rise-in terms of the devalued or "Blum franc." This attempt by the Communists to exempt the proletariat, in which they have their main following, from the sacrifices other French classes are being asked to bear, brought down on Premier Blum the greatest outburst of Parliamentary wrath in months. Representatives of other classes showed not the least embarrassment in rebuking the presumptuous proletariat, and cheers greeted a resounding slap at Premier Blum by famed...
Last Spring a petition, signed unanimously by students of music, requested the University to allot funds sufficient to enlarge the Paine Hall stacks and to transfer scores from the main Harvard library...
...until he soon became dean of his department. She got the Ward's rent reduced, enlivened their home life, nursed their children, corrected their weaknesses and, after their success, prevented infidelity on the part of the parents and selfishness on the part of the children that constituted the main hazard of their triumph...