Word: prick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There followed an excellent banquet with a surprising variety of food. When the banquet was over, General Semenov announced that every man in the room was to prick his ear and mix a drop of blood with that of the Russian or American sitting beside him. He explained that this was a traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment...
...future guide to human behavior. Just what form such an organization would take is not clear even to the professors, but in general it would be a periodic conference of the world's great minds, who through various means would dominate the thought of the layman and prick the bubbles of myth which keep dictators in power...
...National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick-eared creatures with 'little bumps where the horns are beginning to bud, Rancher Belden collected $100. Clumping about Manhattan in his cowboy boots, ten-gallon hat, the short, jovial "Antelope King" remarked: "None of the fawns was airsick. Whenever they seemed to mind the heat, we just flew...
This in Japanese eyes put upon the murder an aspect which caused numerous Japanese, including two schoolgirls, to prick themselves last week and write with their blood passionate pleas for mercy which Presiding Judge Major General Seisaburo Sato had read out in court. "Boo-hoo!" sobbed the Samurai's Son bursting into tears at the tender sentiments of pity penned in "maiden's blood...
...after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having devised perhaps the Ogpu's brightest idea from the viewpoint...