Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naturally, some of our more particular citizens are going to cause you to "chase a jack rabbit" for some of the more obvious errors such as misspelling the name of Justice Robert Lee Bobbitt; placing Lubbock (the Hub of the Plains) below the caprock on the map and failing to show, on the map, that Texas Technological College (third in enrollment in Texas) is at Lubbock; failing to mention El Paso's "garden valley...
...Duke of Addis Ababa drove to the Secretariat of the Fascist Party, majestically ascended its marble stair and received a card enrolling him as a member of the Fascist Party. Grizzled new Member Badoglio then barked a loud, soldierly speech in praise of Fascist works in general and in particular of Benito Mussolini, "the Duce who is the force and guide behind all our efforts...
POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF RUSSIA - George Vernadsky - Little, Brown ($4). Traces, in unadorned academic language, the course of Russian history to the present day, devoting particular attention to early developments, skimping on post-revolutionary events...
...particular bit of political strategy also required the President's attention. Aware that partisans were charging that his scheduled speech at Little Rock, Ark. during the Republican Convention at Cleveland was timed to steal radio attention from his political opponents, Franklin Roosevelt had Secretary Stephen Early write to Columbia and National Broadcasting: the President did not want the broadcasting of his speech to interfere with the Convention's time...
...lump sum of $25,000. To whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy Haj Amin has no particular love for Italy but would probably accept help from anyone who would help him keep the Jews from his native land. The Grand Mufti was admittedly responsible for the bloody riots...