Word: screen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That was Convict Sullivan in clothes he had stripped from a captured guard. He had run through the barrage of tear gas that the troopers let loose on the screaming phalanx as it advanced across the yard toward the gate holding Warden Jennings and the other hostages as a screen in front of them. He had run toward the cars drawn up there outside the gate as decoys, their engines running. Beside him was another convict. In the yard were others. Death was waiting for them, they knew that as soon as the cloud of gas sprang...
...seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...that he is under the influence of a clique of influential duck hogs who do their shooting in states where ducks concentrate, and . . . want the highest possible bag limit. . . .* We condemned the survey's widely publicized duck census because . . . Redington was using counting-the-ducks as a smoke screen to hide his true motives for opposing the reduction...
...came the lights. Near the screen in person sat the milkman. Harold Roller, his head bowed. On trial for the robberies, he had maintained his innocence. The jury retired, deliberated 14 minutes, pronounced him guilty...
...known which will rid the infected human of the worms or their larvae. All that Dr. Pawan could recommend on St. Kitt's was that the inhabitants prevent mosquitoes, the intermediate hosts of infection, from breeding (by filling or oiling stagnant puddles and pools) and that they screen themselves from bites...