Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Until the host of young people are provided with a permanent place in a revised economic order, there are before them two possible futures. They can drift along, bewildered, dissatisfied, listening for the sweet music of a Pied Piper's promises. Or they can sink their roots into the democratic earth, can get a feeling that they are both giving something to, and getting something from, our society...
Tactically it proved for the first time in history that an airplane could sink a modern battleship under certain war conditions...
...responsible for one of the most crucial theatres of war should have passed tense hours reading poetry was altogether fitting. He was flying to help the Greeks, and poetry was being made in Hellas. Theirs was a battle which wanted Homer, a cause which heeded Byron: Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock...
...French naval bases by the German Fleet; surrender to Germany of the League of Nations mandate over Syria; cession of Alsace-Lorraine, French Morocco, Tunisia, the Riviera; German use of French native troops in Equatorial Africa to take the Sudan from the rear; peace drives; war drives; the kitchen sink...
...Churchill wrote in The World Crisis, his brilliant history of World War I: "Open the sea cocks and let our ships sink. In ... half an hour at most, the whole outlook of the world would be changed. The British Empire would dissolve . . . Europe after one mighty convulsion passing into the iron grip and rule of the Teuton. . . . There would only be left far across the Atlantic, unarmed, unready, and as yet uninstructed, America to manage singlehanded law and freedom among men." He could not free himself from a sense of doom...