Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sight after being succeeded by General Maxime Weygand, was the most active of all. Rumor had had him executed, dead by suicide or fleeing the country to save his skin. Actually he had been tending the rose garden at his home near Paris and showed up to give a certain zip to the dullness of the chateau's life. Briskly he did daily setting-up exercises, snappily returned the salutes he rates from the soldiers who guard...
There were certain to be questions on whether Gamelin sacrificed his ill-equipped troops to cover his own blunder, why Reynaud and Daladier ever conceived that France could defeat Germany, why planes were abandoned intact for the enemy to take over, and who were the men responsible for such errors as ordering an armaments factory immediately abandoned when the assembly line was filled with virtually completed tanks. Everything could come under review with a court charged to determine and judge the men responsible for "the passage from the state of peace to a state of war" and whose acts subsequently...
Since some 70% of the Catholic priests and officers of Japan are foreigners, the church is certain to undergo further restrictions. Catholics, like Protestants, meanwhile paid obeisance at Shinto shrines...
...pages caused an uproar in England. It indicted the former members of the Chamberlain Government, several of whom have remained in the Churchill Government, largely by stating their records, and suggested that the British Isles would be a little more buoyant if these men were dropped overboard. When certain British booksellers refused to handle distribution of Guilty Men in the usual way, news dealers took it over, sold eager Britons 50,000 copies of the book in three weeks. Last week it appeared...
This year's count for the ministry fell miserably short of last year's five, gaining only one vote, from an Episcopalian. One freshman seemed certain of going into the business of paint and varnish manufacture, suggesting that his choice like many others was influenced by that of his father...