Word: tottering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fits him as ill as the style Athlete would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only...
...impossible to resolve this dilemma. First of all, the fundamental fact must be recognized that since 1931 when the League of Nations system first began to totter, a race for strategic advantage has been under way, with Italy, Germany, and Japan in the van, and the democracies, including the United States, in full and ignominious retreat. Munich was merely the climax. In such a world as has resulted, force is the nominating factor, and it is important that the superior force be in the right hands...
...wages be cut by the roads. When George Harrison and fellows emerged from the White House after two hours all he would say was: "We presented the joint views of railroad labor and management. . . . The next move is up to the President." With many a major road ready to totter at any moment, it seemed unlikely that Franklin Roosevelt would delay more than a few days...
Even before the final whistle blew the goal posts began to totter and soon yielded under the pressure of a growing throng of rooters. The officials were powerless to stem the tide...
...pelting rains flooded creeks and rivers, drowned 28 citizens, destroyed some $2,000,000 worth of crops, livestock and other property. Almost everywhere else in the vast U. S. granary between the Appalachians and the Rockies farmers tramped sun-baked soil, watched their crops wither and their parched livestock totter, prayed for rain...