Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...mood. Just after German Ambassador Franz von Papen returned to Ankara with German "offers," the Turkish Government clamped martial law upon the land, ordered blackouts, revised train schedules, declared restrictions on automobile travel. The Istanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah challenged: "We do not recognize the German right to hand us an ultimatum. Germany can speak to us only as equals...
...King, with the Queen's hand in his, led her to the throne, and, sitting on the right hand of the throne, not putting on his crown, he intoned: "My Lords, pray be seated." The simplicity was no mere affectation of wartime. It was symptomatic of the most crucial week Britain has experienced yet, with the Luftwaffe smashing harder than ever at the islands, with the Empire fully and desperately engaged from Nova Scotia to the Nile. Indeed, Britain's plight was so grave that while in the U. S. dozens of agents and agencies worked for more...
...warships were not British but the U. S. destroyers Plunkett, Gilmer and Broome, on neutrality patrol. They indignantly accused the U. S. of "hostile attitude," set up an injured howl that the destroyers had invaded Mexico's territorial waters. The Mexican Foreign Office took the matter in hand...
...knowing from lifelong habit how to get around in the hills, the evzone ("well-girt") highland Greek regiments-Balkan counterparts of Scotland's kilted "Ladies from Hell"-took these commanding positions one by one from the Italians, clambering over the top of the mountains with bayonets and hand grenades, later laboriously hauling up mountain guns...
With painful talk about "moving on schedule to other positions," the Italians evacuated the city, leaving behind warehouses full of equipment. Perhaps by the standards of modern warfare the booty was not great, but to the Greeks, accustomed to eating bean soup and black bread and carrying hand-me-down arms, it was immense. This plunder was, after the strategic factors and the enormous boost to Greek and British morale, the third most important thing about the fall of Corizza. It was said to comprise enough small arms and ammunition to outfit two Greek divisions, more heavy artillery than...