Word: rang
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep gorge rang with battle. Three other Italian officers were wounded but fought on while the Ethiopians stubbornly resisted the Italian advance. At nightfall, with the battle line 7,000 feet up in the mountains, the Ethiopian line suddenly broke. Through field glasses General Mariotti could see the Ethiopians scrambling like goats still higher up the mountain, disappearing to the south. At dawn the Askaris rallied for a grandiloquent charge with bayonets and curved swords. That afternoon Azbi was captured...
...Gimme two nickels," he called to the barman on the floor. "I want to make a call." He went to a wall telephone, rang police headquarters. "This is Dutch Schultz," he gasped. "Send an ambulance. I'm dying...
...hearty British cheer, which brought the House of Commons to their feet, rang out last week for the League of Nations. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, in launching his $1,000,000,000 British armament program (see col. 3), had just advanced the theory that this will not be "unilateral rearmament." Although the billion dollars' worth of new arms will all be in one nation's hands, it will not be unilateral rearmament, according to Mr. Baldwin, because ''it is [a] strengthening [of] our defensive forces within the framework of the League for the sake of international...
Idealist of War. On the afternoon of his appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...Motley rang the bell three times. Twice his mates, Manheimer and Motley set the ball up for him when they stole the ball from the opposition and passed quickly and accurately. The other time saw Motley blast it into the corner from a scrimmage several yards...