Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of former Loyalists imprisoned and executed by the New Spain, underground resistance remains. Fortnight ago Major Gabaldon's chauffeur halted his automobile near Alcala de Henares when three men in the uniform of Army captains raised their arms in a signal to stop. It was an ambush. Seven hitchhikers climbed in the car, shot the Major, his 17-year-old daughter, the chauffeur, then tossed the bodies into a ditch...
...hours later police caught the seven murderers driving the Major's car into Madrid. One hundred more suspects were rounded up from the neighborhood of the crime. The authorities stated that they had uncovered a nest of conspirators recruited "from the most sinister Marxist underworld" who called themselves "The Clan of Class Vengeance with Blood." Major Gabaldon's name was claimed to be merely one on a coded "death list" of Franco officers...
Last week end 61 alleged plotters were tried in batches and executed, 53 by shooting, seven by the garrote which chokes and punctures the spine. More arrests were promised...
...August 25, 1914, seven German Armies totaling 1,700,000 men were spread over a jagged 300-mile front from the Swiss frontier to the outskirts of Paris. In 20 days they had advanced like a vast hinge whose outer point traveled 180 miles, smashed through Belgium, through Mons and down the Oise, occupied 14,000 square miles of France, Belgium and Luxembourg. The French plan of an offensive through the German centre had been abandoned. At Paris, in the headquarters of General Joffre, commanding the French forces, the shock had bereft most officers of any plan except continued retreat...
...front, casually invited some British generals in to dinner-it was just before the emergency made Foch Supreme Allied Commander-watched his troops retreat in good order after dark. Then he got a new command made up of the 9th and another division, the remnants of two more, seven squadrons of French cavalry, one British cavalry division, took them into the joint British-French action that halted the German offensive in early April...