Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bales. For with the help of House Agricultural Chairman Marvin Jones, and with time working against the Bankhead plan because planting had already started, he counted on it dying an early death in the House. Meantime, the Department of Agriculture already had $5,000,000 available to put the Roosevelt plan into operation...
...those who saw the last of Republican Madrid was Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 23-year-old son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon and report...
...Some say there are 10,000 [Communists] waiting in jail to be handed over in their chains to the victorious Nationalists. . . . Why are they there? They are being held as ransom. With their lives they will probably pay for the lives of those who put them in prison while they negotiated surrender. . . . One might compare their lot to that of a bull, worn out by picadors, helplessly waiting for the matador to enter with a fanfare of trumpets to give it the coup de grâce. This war, which has been incredibly cruel on all sides since its commencement...
...Rube Goldberg invention: 1) one of I. R. A.'s 15,000 members gets a job in England as a mechanic, poster painter, motorman; 2) he plants a bomb in a place where it will raise merry hell but probably kill no one; 3) the terrified English people put pressure on the Government; 4) the Government cedes Northern Ireland to Eire; 5) a unified Irish Republic is formed, which will be so anti-British that it will take sides against Britain in the next big war. So far, of course, I. R. A.'s eccentric machine has worked...
Wary after threats from all nine sentenced men, London last week put a strong guard around the house of the judge who presided at the trial. But I. R. A. terror, like poison ivy, breaks out in strange places. Late that night, motorists and pedestrians going sleepily home over Hammersmith Bridge, the farthest up-Thames within London, were rocked by a sudden Boom! Suspension chains snapped, a support-girder sagged, windows 100 yards away on the north bank crashed to the street. Bam! In mid-bridge another blast shook the 52-year-old structure from tower to tower. The whole...