Word: night
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Super-Secret. At Paris, in wartime, any French statesman who made such speeches as Darnley, Arnold and Chichester reeled off last week would find his career ended amid shouts of "Traitor!" In phlegmatic London, the sensation in the Lords effectively diverted public curiosity from what happened that same night in the House of Commons, which held its first secret session of World...
...under shore's gloom. Just before dark there were two sharp clashes, and it was evidently in one of those that Spee suffered a final disaster: A hit at the forefoot, at bow and waterline, so that as she went through the sea she shipped water. At last night fell, Spee limped away, turned about, ingloriously backed into Montevideo and wearily dropped her anchor. She was out and all but down...
...guessed. Perhaps he thought cannon fodder could win. Perhaps he is trying to wear down Finnish resistance with inferior troops, saving his best troops to mop up. In any case, by this week fresh thousands of Russians had been thrown into battle on three fronts, attacking the Finns day & night, in wave after wave, trying by sheer force of numbers to beat down their resistance...
...Finns, they continued to harass the invaders, refused to start an offensive which might cost them valuable man power. Their sharpshooters picked Russian observers out of trees. At night, raiding parties of three, armed with their light machine guns, crossed the lakes and rivers in boats, slipped up on the Russians in bivouac and slaughtered them...
...Russians took the nickel-mining town of Salmijärvi, but not before the Finns had blown up the mines and set every shack afire. The Finns retreated towards Pitkajärvi, where they prepared themselves for a stand. At week's end fires burned in the Arctic night along...