Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the "new State" had made worldwide headlines, tactful Angers authorities unobtrusively explained that it had no dimensions, that their soil remains 100% French but that troops of the Polish Army, which General Sikorski is industriously recruiting in France and Britain among expatriate Poles, will be permitted to mount armed...
After receiving this slap, the Strong Man ordered his stooge President Dr. Federico Laredo Bru to dissolve the Cuban falange, an offshoot of Spanish Fascism, and legalize the Cuban Communist Party, which soon boasted 25,000 dues-paying members. Strong Man Batista's subsequent spectacular State visits in Washington...
"The little hats of last July, those impertinent hats of peacetime, those portents of happiness, unstable, tiny, poised comically over the nose, had suddenly become absurd. . . .
Only other man who ever made such a claim was Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, who died in 1920. Both Cook and Peary were once presidents of Manhattan's famed Explorers' Club. Their portraits now hang there, side by side, although over Peary and Cook, three decades ago...
Meantime Cook had arrived in Copenhagen, where he received a tremendous welcome, including a gold medal from the Royal Danish Geographical Society. A handful of exploring notables-Roald Amundsen, Knud Rasmussen, Otto Sverdrup, Major-General Adolphus Washington Greely-favored Cook's claim over Peary's. But in the...