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Hamstrung Republic. In the '303, out of the army and a prosperous consultant on industrial patents, Barea observed from the inside how German interests, especially I. G. Farbenindustrie, had sunk their hooks deep into Spain's economy. Meanwhile, the parties of the Left-Socialists, Anarchists and Communists- brawled among themselves. No republican government could get enough strength to put through reforms against the opposition of the caciques (bosses). Barea does a careful portrait of this ancient Spanish type in action-the landowner, moneylender and local boss who deliberately let the countryside starve to hamstring the republic...
...delegates will attempt to create an organization through which subsequent and more completely representative student meetings can discuss and act on matters of student welfare. The quality of the delegates may well determine the success or failure of the Chicago conference, for in the past student gatherings have invariably sunk knee-deep in weighty resolutions instead of chasing after specific objectives. If a student organization can be set up now to function forcefully on such questions as GI allotments, the miserable condition of public education in the South, and religious and racial quotas in schools, the student's part...
Laski, always the lecturer, delivered a long harangue in answer to one question. Lord Chief Justice Goddard, who had sunk back in his chair, bored but still listening, sat bolt upright to translate to the jury. "The answer," he said, "is 'yes;' " and leaned back again...
Vince enlisted in the Navy in the spring of 1943 and later that year was a member of the crew of the U.S.S. Lansdale, which was sunk off Anzio Beach. In that engagement, he was wounded in both legs...
...structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...