Word: militiaization
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...graduate students have culled over 400,000 quotations in which English words and phrases are used for the first time in a uniquely American sense. Among the state papers of Virginia was discovered, for example, a letter from a frontiersman in 1746 asking for permission to form a militia company for protection against the Indians. In this communication occurs the original usage of the word "back-woods." The list of Americanisms and the dates upon which they first attained their peculiar U. S. connotation, reported Professor Craigie, "already forms a basis on which a dictionary could be compiled which would...
...whom, meant France] her simple alternative of precious friendship or harshest hostility. . . . "Florentines! Have I changed in these eight years? Do you see any decrease in my natural pugnacity?" 'Like the lashing of the sea the roar of 100,000 voices rose from Fascist militia men packed and jammed into the great square before the Palazzo Vecchio, on a balcony of which Il Capo stood. -'No, No!" rumbled the ocean of voices, 'you are not changed! Viva Il Capo! VIVA IL CAPO!" Vibrant with exultation, overpowered as well he might be by the effect he had produced...
...determined mob's efforts to stage 1930 lynching No. 5 succeeded last week, after police, Texas rangers, militia, had fought to prevent...
...crack detachment of the Fascist blackshirt militia, nicknamed "Mussolini's Musketeers," mounted guard at the church as the wedding party swept up in eight automobiles. Among the few, distinguished guests who were allowed to squeeze into the small church, the U. S. was represented by Ambassador and Mrs. John W. Garrett, by enigmatic Mrs. Wurts...
...Last week he chose Muncie, where he will, due to the church's size, automatically acquire prominence among Indiana Baptists. Pastor emeritus of the Muncie First Baptist is soldierly William Graham Everson. last November appointed by President Hoover to be Chief of the War Department's Militia Bureau (TIME...