Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guardsmen could not be everywhere. Most deadly battle occurred at Honea Path, a mill town in South Carolina. There a flying squad of strikers tried to prevent workers from entering the Chiquola Mill. The workers argued for nearly an hour, suddenly started shooting, killed six strikers, wounded 15. Three days later a crowd of 5,000 strikers and strike sympathizers assembled on the field of battle. Amid shouts of "Amen!" and "Praise the Lord!" the Rev. James Myers of Manhattan, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, delivered the funeral oration. "These men," he cried, "were instruments of Jesus...
...theory that a barbecue is adequate consolation for a shattered marriage indicates the intellectual plane of Chained. This does not prevent it from being an entertaining specimen of baloney cinema, replete with sex and high life. In it, Clark Gable wears a little mustache and Joan Crawford gives all she has to her performance as a lady. Most vulgar shot: Mike, Diane and their friend Johnnie (Stuart Erwin) unbuttoning their breeches after a large meal...
...thriving business selling to the crowd which gathered to watch the performers who were now weakly croaking their songs and demands but stoutly refusing all food. Young bloods from Mexico City and one blind fiddler volunteered to help the strikers, most of whom tied towels around their heads to prevent giddiness...
...tribesmen cowering. After the storm, hunters clad in red, purple and orange fell a lion, the Dread of the Jungle. The tom-toms beat again as a human sacrifice is prepared. But at the last moment King Mumbra releases the maiden. But neither he nor his witch doctor can prevent the Portuguese traders from capturing his people...
...person to person, it becomes more and more deadly. . . . Since it appears that it increases in virulence as it travels, it should be brought home to every sufferer of the disease that for the community good, as well as for their own good, they should take every precaution to prevent its spread...