Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "We stand on the threshold of great and grave events...
...Giovanni pulled the corpse of the American outside his shop, placing it near the threshold of his door. ... No charges were made against Mr. Giovanni," says his wife, primly; "such scenes were not extraordinary...
...miles, captured 2,000 villages and towns. Korosten and Zhitomir, lately taken and lost, had been retaken. Berdichev, the bustling Jewish town once used by Manstein for his headquarters, was in danger. This week Vatutin pushed back the enemy, forced his way across Russia's Polish threshold...
...person of their President, Franklin Roosevelt, they stand on the threshold of that world today...
Premier Hideki Tojo had warned Japan that she was on the threshold of "emergency" (TIME, Oct. 4). Heeding his stern voice, the Cabinet last week obediently voted...