Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-Fascist men of goodwill, even a continued boycott of German goods which Soviet Russia was now pledged to buy. As a faithful organ of Soviet doctrine in the U. S., it also had to reprint Pravda's inspired injunction to the Russian people: "An end is being put to hostility between Germany...
...unions struck for a closed shop. Deputized vigilantes from nearby towns and farms shot down five pickets, took over the dam site, behaved so raucously that Colorado's Governor Ralph L. Carr dispatched National Guardsmen to suppress "a state of insurrection." Distressed by the bloodshed, put out by delay, Roy Warner remembered his wise, calm friend in Chicago...
...robbery near Rostov, when he hacked his way through the side of the mailcar and had to jump for it with the train still in motion. Joe Stalin could take it. When his hovel-mates accidentally set fire to some stolen stuff he had hid in the stove, he put a hand in the flames, salvaged only one 500-ruble note. When he was captured and was told to run a gantlet of soldiers swinging riding crops, he walked through, head high, holding a book under his arm. Last week this man was trading in empires...
...debate was over. Four members-a Quaker, a Pacifist, a Laborite, an independent Laborite-walked out the door that signified they were voting against the measure; 457 members walked out on the Government side. Politically, Great Britain was ready for war. The King put his hand to the measure in the traditional Norman phrase: "Le roy le veult...
...sonorous phrases (many of them taken from his own works), he thrilled his listeners with great rolling periods like this: "What they [Germany's allies] do not see or realize is the capacity of the ancient and mighty nations against whom Germany is warring to endure adversity, to put up with disappointment and mismanagement, to recreate and renew their strength, to toil on with boundless obstinacy through boundless suffering to the achievement of the greatest cause for which men have ever fought...