Word: attack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been agreeably surprised that ten weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim," boasted Mr. Churchill. "We are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September!" If Germany does not choose now to attack, continued the First Lord, "we shall profit to the full by the time put at our disposal...
...They [the Nazis] have not chosen to molest the British Fleet, which has awaited their attack in the Firth of Forth during last week. They recoil from the steel front of the French Army along the Maginot Line. But their docile conscripts are being crowded in vast numbers upon the frontiers of Holland and Belgium. To both these States the Nazis have given most recent and solemn guarantees. No wonder anxiety is great. No one believes one word Hitler and the Nazi Party say and therefore we must regard that situation as grave. . . . If we are conquered, all will...
Died. Harrison Robertson, 83, editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal who in 1885 was given charge of the editorial page by the late famed publisher Colonel Henry ("Marse Henry") Watterson; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
...Possum" is a nickname given to Anglophile T. S. Eliot† by Anglophobe Ezra Pound. Source of the nickname was an old compact by which Poet Pound undertook to attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...
Speaking on "Russia and the War," Professor Karpovich pointed to the Soviets' present attempt to subjugate Finland and her recent attack on Poland as indications that she is out for everything which...