Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Shift? "A surprising number" of London Daily Express readers last week returned at their own expense answers to a questionnaire intended to sound British war sentiment. As to the war's outcome, 69.4% "feel confident of an Allied victory"; 27.6% do not; and 1.5% expect a stalemate. Of those who replied, 49.5% called "insecurity for the future" their "greatest wartime discomfort," but 46% are "determined to win at all costs"; 38.7% voted themselves "bewildered...
...Ribbentrop] who, while we write, is mounting the Alps, which close Lamagna above Tiralli, we send our respectful salute," wrote Signer Ansaldo. The quotation is from Dante's Divine Comedy and no educated Italian needs to be told, it is often used to express the Italian command to the Germanic hordes to stay beyond the Alps...
...well be the greatest diplomatic squeeze play of the war. Sunday, from a Rome platform, Il Duce, wearing a dark civilian suit and carrying a heavy black coat, jumped into a special train and headed north. At about the same time in Berlin, the Fuhrer caught a southbound special express. Nobody but the diplomats involved-and Mr. Welles-had received the slightest notice of the rendezvous...
...flayed the Keynes Plan as, "Good enough for Hitler's workers-but not good enough for ours." Lord Stamp, Economic Advisor to the Government, is still for "voluntary methods." Because good words have been said for the Plan by Lords Balfour, Swinton and Glentanar, the capricious London Daily Express paradoxically headlines, "Peers Of The Realm Unite! You Have Nothing To Gain But Keynes...
...past three years the U. S. indoor track season has wound up with a Record- Party at Dartmouth's Davis Field House in the New Hampshire hills. For the express purpose of breaking records, the season's fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce track-with Dartmouth runners acting as pacemakers. There, two years ago, iron legged Glenn Cunningham ran his amazing 4:04.4 mile. Last year Negro John Borican set world's indoor records for a half-mile...