Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a tragic day for thinking Italians and Americans of Italian descent. . . . Mussolini has made a ghastly mistake. What can he hope to gain that will redeem Italy in the eyes of the civilized world? Territory? First-rate standing for Italy? . . . By what fatuous self-hypnotism has he whipped himself and his people into such a false move...
...lump all its Pacific eggs, bargain on behalf of the Philippines, of The Netherlands East Indies, and even Australia, perhaps win for China better terms than are now in sight. The U. S. has much to offer hard-pressed, sorely drained Japan. The U. S. also has much to gain, including insurance of U. S. supply sources in the Pacific Indies...
...told that the Italian Navy is coming to gain sea superiority in these waters. If that is seriously intended, I can only say we shall be delighted to offer Mussolini free, safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar. . . . There is general curiosity in the British Fleet to find out whether the Italians are up to the level they were in the last war or whether they have fallen...
...only is the Paris plan vulnerable to internal disorder, it is far from invulnerable to seizure from without. An invading general whose troops break through the ring of old forts and gain access to the boulevards has the same advantages that Haussmann's revolt-breakers were supposed to enjoy. And the old masonry buildings become bomb traps since the limestone of which they are constructed shatters easily, each splinter becoming itself a missile...
...shall not land troops like William the Conqueror and gain Brazil by the strength of arms. Our weapons are not "visible ones."-Adolf Hitler