Word: neath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neath, chairman of Humble Oil & Refining Co., which had strongly urged a big boost in production all through the Suez crisis, now agreed with the commission that the latest increase may have been a mistake. To fill one April order of 2,900,000 bbl. of crude for Europe, Humble has found 2,500,000 bbl. readily available. In Washington, where the Administration had criticized the oil industry for supposedly failing to supply Europe with enough oil, Assistant Interior Secretary Felix Wormser told the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee that U.S. oil lifters had supplied more than...
Throughout India, the land of Gandhi's satyagraha (peaceful soul force), a tide of violence was on the rise. Never far be neath the surface since January's Bombay riots, in which hundreds of people were killed, it broke again with a sudden and terrible fury in the blaze of India's consuming summer heat...
...Neath thick willow boughs...
...Neath East Gate willows...
...Franco bombs and bullets ever kill women and children, only Franco soldiers ever murder their prisoners, only the Franco side ever lies. Frequently, Author Bowers sounds more like a pamphleteer than a competent historian, e.g., "It is ironical that the diplomatic representative of every nation soon to be trodden neath the iron heel of Hitler was openly smiling on the totalitarian crusade against democracy in Spain." Bowers writes much better when he is telling of his prewar rambles around the Spain he loved so well: Holy Week in Seville, wine-tasting in Jerez de la Frontera, a fiesta in Toledo...