Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Roget's opprobrious connotations of the word Jew: cunning, usurer, rich, extortioner, heretic, deceiver, impostor, harpy, schemer, lickpenny, pinchfist, Shylock, chicanery, duplicity, crafty.* Mr. Blumenthal, 47, sent his article to Thomas Irving Crowell, 65, Protestant. The 'B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League prosecuted a flank attack on Mr. Crowell. He promised to purge Roget's in his new edition. As surety the other day he sent Mr. Blumenthal proofs of now inoffensive pages. Therefore last week Jews lifted Crowell's Roget's "from their index expurgatorius...
...have not forgotten the wound on our eastern flank and the lopping off of the Vistula district, nor have we forgotten how shabbily Woodrow Wilson urged the unnatural severing of East Prussia from the Fatherland. . . . We intend, of course, to fulfill our European mission without going to war, but, on the contrary, only soldiers with front experience can liquidate...
...inspired by the desire on the part of enlightened socialists to relieve the working classes and to bring government more closely in line with the performance of services directly to the people's benefit. Now, with defeat looming up, MacDonald's party is attacked on its most vulnerable flank, the unemployment problem. The Laborites, in short, are being ejected from the Treasury Bench for not sufficiently aiding the laborers. Fortune's wheel swings round and round, but the politicians, dodging under elaborate nomenclature, are still up to their old tricks...
Famed because of the "window" in her stomach, noted as an object of important research, Jessie became accustomed to sightseers who were taken to her stall and allowed to peek at her punctured flank. Although last month she was moved to a new stall to insure privacy for further tests, Jessie died. Last week, her carcass was disintegrated in a fertilizer factory...
Hollywood is on Los Angeles' northwest flank; on the southwest is Culver City...