Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...high stone-walled Chungking compound, the "Gissimo" and "Gissima," as Chungkingites call them, receive hundreds of generals, diplomats, politicians, distinguished foreign journalists. Centre of resistance and focus of command, the compound is also an amusing object of gossip. No act of this remarkable pair is too trivial for discussion all over China: if he flies to Chengtu for two days' rest, it is taken to mean that the Government is moving; if she flies to Hong Kong to have her teeth fixed, it is rumored that China will borrow ?25,000,000 from Britain...
...Germans who have been confined behind guarded frontiers since 1933 it was reported that mileage tickets are to be issued shortly by the German Railway so that without waiting for fare adjustments following the war they can gratify long-harbored desires to visit Paris and the Riviera. Chief object of interest, however, was the Maginot Line, now in occupied territory, and boulevard gossip in Berlin indicated that it would soon become the world's most elaborate and expensive tourist attraction...
...commercial propagandists do, but to demoralize the enemy, to destroy the cohesion, discipline and collective morale of hostile social groups." This was first fully realized by the French General Staff, to whom military intelligence furnished manuals worked out by a psychological laboratory connected with the German Ministry of Propaganda. Object: to aggravate and confuse the struggles of interests and political religions in western Europe. Of the two principal religions Taylor observes...
...sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French terminal of the railroad from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, and bombed Aden, British control port opposite Djibouti. His object apparently was to meet blockade with blockade, bottle...
...eagle eye saw his chance. Down he swooped on the La Follette-Thomas Bill, tacked on an amendment providing that no more than 10% of the employes in any interstate enterprise may be aliens. Caught in a national wave of fifth columny (see p. 21), the Senate dared not object. Exultant Bob Reynolds then produced his master stroke...