Word: fraught
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are in the Senate 16 Democrats who in 1928 supported the La Follette Resolution condemning a third term as "unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with peril to our free institutions." One is Arizona's Ashurst. Another is bumbling Alben Barkley. Last week, to embarrass them, Nebraska's Edward Burke invited them to his sub-committee hearings on his proposed Constitutional amendment limiting a President to one six-year term, to explain their support of a third term for Franklin Roosevelt. They hedged. Rumbled Alben Barkley: "A wise man may change his mind, but a fool never does." Quipped...
...Newfoundland, Northeastern Canada] ... it could launch a devastating air attack upon our eastern seaboard. ... In the metropolitan area of New York over 7,000,000 people are mainly dependent on a single water supply nearly 100 miles in length "I believe that we are facing a grave national emergency fraught with the possibility of immediate peril. I know that we are unprepared but I am confident that it is not a hopeless situation." These were some of the plainest words to which the public had been treated by men in responsible positions. The commit tees, whether or not they agreed...
Last week's situation was fraught with distractions to worry a commander on an unparalleled scale. In the beginning German parachute troops poured down, sometimes disguised as French peasants, even as women, to put the torch to villages in the Allies' rear areas. German motorcycle troops with armored breastplates and flame-throwing tanks with crews in suits of asbestos made incursions behind the French lines. The Germans used cardboard shapes to decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact...
...gamble on a great scale, fraught with the risk of extending an already long front and the danger of exhausting a vital hoard of oil and other strategic materials. To work it had to have 1) surprise, 2) complete and efficient coordination of the three striking arms, army, navy, air force, on a broader and more complicated scale than any war had ever seen before. It involved landing parties at many points over hundreds of miles, a swift invasion across Denmark's land border, preparation by air and sea bombardment...
...situation was desperate and fraught with excitement. Despairing of improvement, Vag reached out with a timid hand, slowly, carefully, and then with a sudden bold motion firmly pressed the metal plunger. Another summoning of courtage, another depression of the plunger, and it was all over. Vag stood up, slipped a few coins into the small box marked P-L-E-A-S-E, and dashed out the door back to the comparative security of his third-floor room. Now there was only the anxiety of waiting for a small while envelope bearing the printed legend, "The Crimson Portro-self...