Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted to listen to the proceedings from behind a screen. They walked down Great Queen Street that night, boiling mad, resolved to return to the U. S. and launch a holy war for woman's rights...
...Lowlands in time: to do so might make enemies out of friends. German diplomacy worked to incorporate Yugoslavia in its Axis Order, to soothe Turkey and Bulgaria. In Spain Great Britain won a diplomatic victory, signed a clearing agreement that probably contained a secret understanding providing for the return to Spain of Gibraltar after the war. Thus, for the time being at least, was secured Britain's second naval fortress...
...with foreign agents, torn by clashing internal factions, with all its fell forces suddenly let loose. Premier Antonescu must have remembered his words of a fortnight ago, as he optimistically left to sign with the Axis in Berlin: "I leave with complete confidence in the Rumanian people, I shall return with complete confidence in the German people...
...assistant secretary, blonde and blue-eyed Miss Virginia Hoagland. To attract their wives as well as the younger instructors themselves, the women's suite on the second floor was refurbished. It took very little encouragement for this to become the bridge, mah jong, and gossip center of Cambridge. In return the coeds each week give some professor a chance to lecture uninterruptedly not only his own missus but his colleagues' wives as well...
Demobilization of emergency efforts and the return to stabilization again-is likewise a task of fundamental importance, a task to which we must look forward and for which we must plan before the new situation leaps out at us and demands a solution...