Word: plucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck...
...Before going to Munich last September to give Führer Hitler his way about Czechoslovakia, Mr. Chamberlain quoted Henry IV thus: "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
Dictator. Franklin Roosevelt five years ago sent aristocratic Ambassador Sumner Welles to pluck Cuba from under the heel of bloody President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado. That chunky brown soldier, Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, organized a revolt against Ambassador Welles's dummy President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, made himself Cuba's army chief and proceeded to set up and knock down presidents of his own in a way that has made Dictator Machado look almost constitutional...
...better fall sport has over been desire than foot-ball, and its abandonment by the college cannot fall to be taken as an indication of the wane of that spirit of pluck and hardihood which has characterized the Harvard Undergraduate of the past...
...August 9, Ohio's Governor Martin Luther Davey will run for renomination in the Democratic pri-mary against former Lieutenant Governor Charles Sawyer. If Governor Davey is defeated, the board of trustees, four of whose seven members he appointed, at a scheduled meeting on August 17 might pluck him the job as Ohio State's president...