Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nashville, and in the smoky old Capitol addressed the Legislature with a stirring denunciation of the plan-which incidentally may enable Governor Browning to replace him in the U. S. Senate in 1940. Said he: "I've made mistakes but I do not think I deserve this stab in the back...
...watch towers ten or twelve rifle bullets whistled into the melee. When it ended, one guard and one convict lay dead, six others lay unconscious in the yard. Another convict soon died of his wounds, and last week, after six blood transfusions, Warden Larkin died of his infected stab wounds. As the five surviving convicts were being indicted for murder other big prisons had their own troubles...
...Stab at Suiyuan. Japan's Kwantung Army, recent conquerors of Chahar Province, swung furiously westward last week in efforts to break through into Inner Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...
Hampered all year by an over-worked, one man pitching staff, Coach Fred Mitchell has found in Dave Shean, an outfielder who hasn't toed the stab since his days on the Yardling nine two years ago, someone to share the mound burden with Ed Ingalls. Until Shean was discovered a week ago, Ingalls has won the only games credited to the Crimson victory column. Although Shean has successfully held Brown and Northeastern in check, it is doubtful if his slow ball will baffle the hard hitting batters of the Yale and Dartmouth nines...
Suddenly a stab of flame gashed the airship's flank near the port stern gondola. So swiftly that to many it seemed instantaneous the flame engulfed the whole rear half of the ship. There was a muffled, booming WHOOSH and a huge belch of white fire and smoke mushroomed skyward...