Word: exploiting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...
This stone Commemorates the exploit...
...Free us, sir, from Yankee imperialism,"? said the spokesman. "Peruvians don't hate foreigners who come to work with us. We hate those who come to exploit...
...Explained the flyers: "A cracked crank case." Observed Manager Pickens: "Not enough money. They'd have been saps to stay up." Gross rewards: possibly $30,000 in gifts, contracts for advertising and appearance at fairs. The champions might well have consoled themselves that lack of enthusiasm over their exploit would serve to forestall any early attempt to better it. But in Portland, Ore., the Stinson monoplane On to Oregon was taken aloft for just that purpose by the Brothers Tex, Dick & Bud Rankin, noted airmen of the West...
...paid little attention. Through months of talking and brooding the thought of winning that case became a mania eating up all his other thoughts. By degrees it developed a corollary. He felt that to get the hearing he wanted he must attract attention, make himself famous by some remarkable exploit or else hurt himself so badly and spectacularly that the British Government in South Africa and the whole world would listen when he told what a spectacular injustice had been inflicted upon...