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… while machine gun nests lay in wait for those fleeing the fires. Rape, pillage, and summary executions accelerated as … the Manileños also faced indiscriminate American artillery fire. Meeting block-by-block resistance, U.S. forces poured …

… the “fear itself” speech; the bank holiday and the fireside chats; the National Recovery Administration (NRA), …

… of Jewish residence in Jerusalem’s walled Old City. They fired in the direction of West Jerusalem’s densely populated …

… suffrage as a demand, but in the 1890s, German socialist firebrand Clara Zetkin revived that goal, spearheading the … organized parades to mourn the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire victims and protest unsafe working conditions. The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that claimed the lives of 145 workers, most of them …

… with such exceptions as uniforms for the military, police, firefighters and "patriotic organizations," but not athletic …

… British newspaper gleefully observed, a notable death, a fire, and an automobile accident—the kind of material that …

… the death of Jan Palach, the student who set himself on fire to protest the military suppression of the Prague … in the city of Timisoara, the security services opened fire on the crowd. On 21 December, Ceausescu called for a … chanting slogans against him. Representatives of Securitate fired against the demonstrators, which unleashed a popular …

… speakers. FDR used radio effectively, and his famous “fireside chats” played a critical role in drumming up …

… gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,” he warned, “signifies, in a final sense, a theft …

… of Dakota Territory in 1884 called the idea of carrying firearms into the city a “dangerous practice,” not only to …

… from an ATM near the Bratislava Castle. Beneath a canopy of fireworks, yellow balloons, and a clever 2€€9 banner, …

… Gilligan, an off-duty white lieutenant in civilian clothes, fired three shots and killed James Powell, a 15-year-old …

… from the people who had defeated them. Destruction from the firebombing of Tokyo and other cities and the dropping of …

… know, in Africa and East Asia and things like this. And the firepower was far superior. They had created these … in these Imperial places, so that they did have superior firepower. And so they were used to these quick, decisive …

… stadium, to a crowd of twenty thousand, complete with fireworks. And, presaging celebrities’ self-promotion from …

… that Efimov, in turn, helped to conjure. Efimov was briefly fired from his position as caricaturist, but otherwise …