Word: rudeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left their Asmara base, white-bearded old General de Bono, commander-in-chief, had gone with his chief-of-staff, General Melchiade Gabba, and other staff officers to a cleared mountain top from which they could have an unobstructed view of the frontier river, the Mareb, and the rude camel tracks leading up to the mountains and Aduwa...
...were the peak of each column. Then came a fan-shaped formation of red-fezzed Askaris carrying auto-matic rifles, searching every inch of the ground for pitfalls, every rock for snipers. Then the main advance: infantrymen in single file slogging along the gutters and the centres of the rude roadways jammed with trucks, caissons, field pieces, and long lines of swaying supercilious camels. Labor battalions, stripped to the waist, were mixed right in with the marching men. As the infantry advanced they sprang to work building roads for the heavy trucks to follow, singing...
Wherever the hideout is, it is a rude spot. At the last minute it was decided not to take 4-year-old Prince Sahle Selassie there, but to keep him in the royal palace with the Emperor. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 19, is already with the troops (TIME...
...company of Vermont boys ambushed a company of regulars and fired point blank into them. A valiant Vermonter went to port arms and demanded, according to the rules of sham battle, that a regular in an exposed position surrender. The regular made a pass with his bayonet and several rude remarks. The Vermonter got a nasty gash under the eye. Thereupon the Vermonters clubbed two regulars unconscious with their rifles before umpires could interfere. After that the umpires made a strict rule that opposing forces could not approach within 300 yards of each other...
...Chicago Press, once over the difficulty of Bauer's dreadful injury by calling it variously "penknife mutilation," "sex-operation," "rude emasculation," straightway pointed "The Finger of Suspicion" at Mandeville Zenge...