Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway. Being obliged to cons jit Keitel last month, to be told how to retrieve his subordinates' botch of a campaign which he never approved, must have made the 68-year-old Marshal swallow hard. Last week he retired "at his own request" from the service of a Duce whom he once offered to crush as an upstart...
...angriest outburst, the most violent opposite to Premier Konoye's conservative steps, came from the Japanese Army's Shanghai paper Sin Shun Pao: "We hate the United States, which forgets humane justice, more than we hate the Chungking Government. The time will come when either we swallow up the United States or the United States swallows us. Awaken, Asiatic peoples! We must speed up military and diplomatic measures and crush Anglo-American efforts to obstruct the New Order...
Jammed into the ballroom of Omaha's Hotel Fontenelle, the United Lutherans re-elected their perennial president (he has held the job since the church was organized in 1918): precise, white-goateed Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 70, of Manhattan. Dr. Knubel admitted he could swallow the articles of agreement only by "gulping." The United Lutherans, who think some parts of the Scripture more important than others, had to swallow hard too. But under Dr. Knubel's brisk leadership and spurred by their desire for unity, gulp them the United Lutherans...
...British later explained that it be came clear that Dakar could not be taken without "a major military operation," which Britain did not wish to undertake against the former ally. But this rationalization was not enough for the rest of the world to swallow. No explanation would make Dakar anything but defeat. Furthermore, it was a serious defeat. Dakar, being the westernmost point on Africa's bulge, potentially commands the Atlantic. It is the terminus of airlines from Europe and interior Africa. It is only 1,700 miles from the tip of Brazil. In German hands it would play...
Clare Boothe went to England to look at "this happy breed of men, these sunning English." "The cuckoo, the nightingale and the swallow had returned to all the London parks." Some of the sandbags had begun to sprout green things because instead of being filled with sand, they had been filled with plain black dirt. Norway had been lost. In upper-class English drawing rooms they were saying: "England always loses every battle but the last one." Asked about Norway, the chambermaid said: " 'Orrible! 'Orrible! But I 'ear we gave 'em what for: killed millions more...