Word: snipes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blazing and scorching some 8,000 ft. below the plateau toward the sea, are the Hell-Holes of Creation, inhabited by tribes of extraordinary hardihood and savagery. Explorers report that "some of these peoples have never heard of Haile Selassie." It is they who today with complete impartiality harry, snipe at and loot any small detachment of soldiers, be they Ethiopian or Italian...
...Soldiers, I give you this advice. Be cunning, be savage. Face the enemy one by one, two by two, in the fields and mountains. Do not take white clothes. Do not mass as now; hide and strike suddenly. Steal up, snipe and murder singly...
INASMUCH AS THE OREGONIAN'S AFFAIRS APPEAR TO HAVE BECOME THE SUBJECT OF A FREE FORUM IN TIME, PERHAPS YOU WILL LET ME EDGE IN. ON THE DAY WHEN TIME [JAN. 21] ARRIVED WITH SAM MITCHELL'S LETTER, SAYING THE OREGONIAN ENGAGES IN REACTIONARY SNIPING, THE OREGONIAN'S LEADING EDITORIAL WAS AN UNQUALIFIED ENDORSEMENT OF ROOSEVELT'S SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM. WHEN THE OREGONIAN FIGHTS IT ATTACKS, DOES NOT SNIPE. AS FOR MITCHELL'S NOTION ABOUT WANING PRESTIGE, THE BEST TEST IS CIRCULATION, WHICH WITH US HAS GROWN STEADILY FROM A DEPRESSION...
...come to that. Did you, about an hour and a half ago, leave the said Chet Stevens bolding a bag for snipe in the corner of Henley's Woods nearest the rifle range...
...about. It will be a working session-pass supply bills, tax bills and liquor bills and adjourn early in May. There will be no attempt to overthrow anything the last session of Congress enacted and there will be no attempt to oppose the President. The Republicans had better not snipe. Anybody who snipes will be left at home...