Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that the majority (for conscription) appear to be inarticulate. Count this...
...defenses and reached Croydon, Britain's greatest airport, ten miles from London's heart. The British said all the raiders were destroyed, but so were hangars and shops at Croydon and many a neighboring house. On Aug. 16 they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes (counting repeaters) and announced a "special'' armada of some 750 planes, steered by crack pilots, to make the first actual attempt on great sprawling London. This armada split, half aiming at the London docks and Woolwich Arsenal on the east, the other half aiming at munitions stores...
...victims, children. Serrano is also responsible for the dissatisfaction of many Spanish businessmen with the new regime. If they do not obey Government orders they are taken out and shot as dead as Leftists. In foreign policy Strong Man Serrano follows his good friend, Italy's Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...
Died. Alessandro Bonci, 70, onetime tenor for the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Chicago Opera Companies, temperamental rival of the great Enrico Caruso; in Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
...prove by the Bible"; 2) that he had plucked his texts from the militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished his presumption by killing 70,000 of them with pestilence in three days...