Word: showering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raising one of their steel rams, the besiegers began to batter at a nailed-shut door. Down on them rained a shower of bolts, nuts, pulleys, bottles filled with nitric acid. Behind a barrage of tear gas, the officers joined battle. Strikers turned on the plant's ventilating system, cleared out the gas almost as fast as it came in. One excited deputy was burned with his own gas bomb. Acid containers hit two policemen, splashed them painfully. One striker quit the plant badly gassed. After two hours the officers ran out of tear gas and Sheriff Doolittle...
...five minutes the entire Cambridge Fire Department rumbled into the Yard. In another minute the alarm stopped ringing, and a fireman reported that somebody had neglected to turn off the hot shower in Entry A, the heat therefrom precipitating the excitement...
...city, Vigan, and found his residence sacked, its library scattered, its chapel fouled from having been used as a stable and the cathedral in possession of an Aglipayan priest, this sturdy son of Patrick and Bridget Dougherty girded for action. He gathered a band of loyal Catholics, braved a shower of stones to wrest the cathedral from the Aglipayan. Arming his flock he toured his diocese reopening and reconsecrating churches, confirming as many as 70,000 Filipino children at a time, spending weeks on horseback and at times paddling his own canoe through the jungle. He visited a colony...
...hand, and Stalinism on the other. At the time of the British Coal Strike (which precipitated the British General Strike of 1927), its leaders cried, "Thank God for Moscow!" and received through the Bank of England from the Soviet State Bank some $2,000,000. That shower of gold was "Trotskyism." The British General Strike fizzled. Stalin, the practical vowed to stop wasting Russia's money thus and concentrated all energies upon building up his Soviet Union at home...
...minds of neutral observers there is no doubt whatever that Trotsky is an authoritative Communist, Stalin is an even more authoritative Communist, and that -supposing the time ever comes when the Soviet Union is a "success" and has money to spare-Moscow will again shower gold upon Communist parties in other lands, a policy which is so "Trotskyist" today and so sharply distinguished now from what is Stalinist...