Word: placed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said the President: "It becomes clearer and clearer that the future world will be a shabby and dangerous place to live in-yes, even for Americans to live in-if it is ruled by force in the hands...
During the now well-known diplomatic negotiations that went on & on till peace finally collapsed, Viscount Halifax occupied a unique place as Foreign Secretary. Even at the time of Munich he had the sympathy and respect of such men as (appeaser) Sir John Simon and (vigorous anti-appeaser) Winston Churchill. To all of them he was a sort of civil servant of the highest order. Winston Churchill recently called him "a gentleman, a fox hunter, a friend...
...into a mudbank, they left her with engines racing forward, slid overside on ropes in time to escape blasts set off in her hold by electric impulse from shore. Workmen had replaced steel plates with wooden planking in sections of the ship's bottom. The hull settled into place to help block a Scapa inlet and avert another submarine slip-up shot like Lieut. Commander Günther Prien's on the Royal...
...Finland will pay 1,000 American dollars for each airplane received undamaged, plus free transportation for the pilot to any place in the world...
...very important man, since Harvard's backstroke forces are weakened in the medley relay and in the 150-yard dorsal event without him; at the same time, he can probably swim a 50, 100, or 220 faster just now than anyone on the squad. So Hal must place his big guns (Bosworth plus the above-mentioned gentlemen) rather carefully to insure maximum point production...