Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Chicago was quiet, but a vivid description of what a newsreel camera saw Mayor Kelly's police do to the picket army at Republic Steel's barrier month ago (see p. 11), provoked fresh cries of "murder" from the Labor camp...
...Richard in reply to a Civil Liberties body which challenged the suppression: ". . . Please remember that whereas newspapers reach individuals in the home, we show to a public gathered in groups averaging 1,000 or more and therefore subject to crowd hysteria when assembled in the theatre." One man who saw the film explained: "It made me want to go out and bite a policeman...
...whom Paul knew, most of whom he liked. In Spanish politics, Paul's sympathies were all to the Left, but he had good friends on the Right as well. He mourns equally over them all: "In all Iviza's 6,000 years the watchers on her hills saw no stranger sights than I did, nothing more unreal, more unexpected. . . . Nineteen thirty-six, take your place in the corridor of bloody years! Be proud, if you can, of what you have evoked and produced and spilt...
...knew what was coming. One Sunday noon it came-four planes dropping bombs. Fifty-five (42 of them women and children, says Paul) were killed. In a rage of revenge, Government guards massacred their rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next day to find out what was going on, saw scores of dead bodies on the floor of the prison. He recognized many of the faces. By that time he was ready to go. When a German destroyer came to evacuate foreigners he took his family and an Ivicenco friend aboard. What was going to happen to the friends...
...writer, when he knows what it is about and how it is done, grows accustomed to war. ... It is a shock to discover how truly used to it you become. . . But no one becomes accustomed to murder. And murder on a large scale we saw every day. . . . The totalitarian fascist states believe in the totalitarian war. That put simply means that whenever they are beaten by armed forces they take their revenge on unarmed civilians. In this war, since the middle of November, they have been beaten at the Parque del Oeste, they have been beaten at the Pardo, they...