Word: phalanxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy City's sun-baked walls and domes had dominated the ages. Doomed to repeated conquest, it had heard the clatter of Egyptian cavalry, the rattle of Persian scythe-wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
...Syndicate. Marshall Field should have plenty of competition. By last week smart, suave Bennett Cerf, president of Random House, had lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie...
...Falange (Phalanx-Spain's official Fascist party, modeled on Fascismo and National Socialism). Its violently pro-German extremists would be the country's Fifth Column if the Nazis pushed in. Franco himself is the Party's titular head...
...first goal," said Phalanx Chief James Banahan, "is to blow up the Communist headquarters right around the corner. We'll be making bombs soon...
...McWilliams, and a salesman for Nazi agent George Sylvester Viereck's Flanders' Hall Publishing Company. He was made a captain (Grand Central District) in the underground Army of Christ, alias the Iron Guard, alias the Midtown Sporting Club ("interested in shooting rabbits, see?"), alias the American Phalanx (PAX for short "In Latin it means peace...