Word: brink
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Britain was on the brink of admitting that, having stopped the Luftwafle by day, it could not cope with it by night. After Britain's industrial towns and ports had been individually, systematically smashed at night during three weeks of a new kind of mass air war, in Washington Ambassador Lord Lothian said he was still confident his country could hold its end up-provided there was enough help "from here...
...British were on the brink, the Italians were now definitely on the run. For while it was forming new political alliances (TIME, Dec. 2), the Axis had run into its first big military reverses. These were serious indeed. Its sea power disgraced when half its battleship force was crippled at anchor in Taranto harbor, its armies now definitely stalemated in Egypt, its Greek offensive in reverse, Italy showed herself in her true aspect-Germany's supply-starved, dangerously inept southern flank. Crippled, Italy invited even more vicious blows from the British, and the British could be expected to deliver...
Like all Roberts romances, Oliver Wiswell is also important history. Novelist Roberts sees the American Revolution as a social revolution in which the colonial masses, stirred by rabble rousers like Sam Adams and John Hancock, brought the colonies to the brink from which they were later saved by the men who framed the Constitution. This book explains why Americans became tories, why the tories, through they appear to have represented at least half of the population in the 13 colonies, were defeated, why the English were unable to quash the rabble in arms...
...Desert. Before that, no one knew whether dinosaurs laid eggs or bore their young alive. Andrews has done a great deal of other scientific junketing, slaking an insatiable curiosity which he has had ever since he was a Wisconsin boy. Several times he has been on death's brink-once a black boy in Borneo yanked him out of range of a huge python which was about to drop on the explorer from a tree...
...bases in the Western Hemisphere. Last week the Tribune, in its first edition, ran a 166-line editorial, We Get the Bases, pointing to the President's deal as a triumph for the Tribune. On page 1 the Tribune printed a caustic cartoon titled Nearer and Nearer the Brink, condemning the deal as an act of war (see cut, p. 77). In later editions the cartoon disappeared, was replaced by another kidding Franklin Roosevelt's trip to Tennessee. In its third edition the Tribune slashed its long editorial to a mild, 27-line cackle of pleasure...