Word: imprison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue a blustering manifesto: "Courage! Our victory is certain. My mission is to defend Madrid at all costs. You must give up your lives before yielding another inch of ground!" Meanwhile Madrid syndicalist newspapers excitedly explained the Government's flight. If the Whites were able to catch and imprison its members, they argued, then foreign powers would have no choice but to recognize Generalissimo Franco as actual head of the Spanish State. Only this consideration, the journals exclaimed, could overcome the Cabinet's reluctance to abandon the capital, move to safety...
Also bowled over in quick succession were Republican amendments to: 1) substitute the dole for work relief; 2) set up non-partisan local boards to administer relief; 3) fine and imprison any WPA official attempting to influence votes in a national election. As swiftly approved were Democratic amendments to: 1) bar aliens illegally resident in the U. S. from relief; 2) end the rule that WPA jobs may be had only by those on relief rolls since last November...
...spite of his duchess who used to come to his studio to be rouged by him, worked incessantly. He painted courtiers, decorated churches, produced Los Caprichos, his most famed etchings. These showed madmen, convicts, prostitutes, gluttonous monks, himself enticed by a two-headed Alba. Outraged, the Inquisition tried to imprison Goya, was stopped by the King. When Napoleon descended upon Spain, Goya remained in Madrid, helped King Joseph Bonaparte select 50 Spanish paintings for the Musée Napoleon in Paris. But when Wellington (whom he painted) restored the Bourbons and Ferdinand VII took the throne, Goya retired from...
...Buckley Maits had to wait until Mike Rusco, 45, should develop rabies as he was practically certain to do. Then, since there is no cure, but only prevention for rabies, when Mike Rusco's bite or froth from his mouth becomes dangerous to the community. Dr. Maits would imprison him "until the inevitable end comes...