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Then parachutes, white, red, green, blue and yellow, blossomed beneath the planes and the air was filled with men, guns and gear. For the next two days the paratroopers established an "airhead" against a theoretical enemy who had theoretically overrun the northeast...
...Columbia), led by avowed Communists, paraded past the pier with signs reading: "Students say no arms to Fascists," and "Load bread, not bullets, on the Colima." Anti-Communist labor leaders in Vancouver and Ottawa forced the meddlesome Reds to back down and withdraw their pickets. But the Colima had overrun her charter date for loading the cargo, and Chinese officials had to seek another ship to carry it. At week's end, the cargoes were still waiting at the piers in both Halifax and Vancouver...
...long as they serve the purpose. . . . Let one think of the pact to assure our back. Now Russia has far-reaching goals; above all, the strengthening of her position in the Baltic. We can oppose Russia only when we are free in the West. [France had not then been overrun, and Hitler was still thinking of trying to cross the Channel.] Further, Russia is striving to increase her influence on the Balkans and is striving toward the Persian Gulf. That is also the goal of our foreign policy...
Long-Arm was succeeded by many rival princes, among them Basil the Cross-eyed, who later became Basil the Sightless and Ivan Kalita, called Moneybag, who first gave Moscow something like an ordered economy. The young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will...
...Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was a handsome and susceptible small landowner of nearby Chivilcoy. Her mother was a dark-eyed Basque named Juana Ibarguren, whose charms were sufficient to lure Juan from his wife. The couple set up housekeeping in a tumbledown house with an unkempt yard overrun by chickens. They had five children, of whom Eva was the last...