Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pointed measures to strengthen the Axis' great foe. It suggested even more strongly that the Axis had decided to take advantage of existing isolationist sentiment in the U. S. to divide and confuse the biggest "pluto-democracy," in order to slow up aid to Britain at a vital moment...
...made their peace with the Revolution. They showed the rest of Business a way both to stay in business and to keep out of trouble. In making that deal, Business might or might not believe in the emergency; it did not care to say. It was of no moment, for Business was no longer in power...
...need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find it difficult at the moment to get all the aluminum you want when you want it, you will know that aluminum has gone off to defend your home and country...
...When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers...
...This is the highest and most solemn moment of our war," Italy's chief labor newspaper, Lavoro Fascista, said last week. "The time has come to say to our open and hidden enemies that we have never been prouder of being Italians and Fascisti. . . . That goes also for those Italians who are falser than Greek money and, doubly bastardized, who have not the heart to hold out to victory and who are not worthy of it. With them, fortunately, the accounting is near...