Word: fallen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been dozing at their posts, or-what was worse -fumbling with deadly effect. The official who had most to say about this state of affairs was Henry L. Stimson, Mr. Roosevelt's Republican Secretary of War. Undertaking to explain why the draft and National Guard mobilization had fallen behind schedule (TiME, Nov. 25), he was as blackly frank as William S. Knudsen was on industrial defense. With other dark bits in the news. Mr. Stimson's statement made a sorry record, sinisterly remindful of the British in Norway, the French in lost France...
Flat as a pfennig has fallen the neo-pagan celebration of the Nordic Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...
...urged that defense power needs be met with quickly constructed coal-burning steam plants, since the Seaway would be years abuilding. The Middle West, which for years wanted the Seaway, imagining grandiose pictures of ocean liners docking at Chicago and Cleveland, has cooled off. Its big export trade has fallen off, its agriculture is already aided by farm benefit payments...
Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many-they...
...world was going to hell at a very early date. He believed in the Munich appeasement because he feared that England was doomed if she fought in 1938. His feeling has never changed-as his Boston interview (later repudiated) showed last month. So far the world has never fallen on the date Joe Kennedy set, but some day it might. If he is going to advise the President, U. S. foreign policy may well take a turn toward great caution if not appeasement...