Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long could the Finns hold out? Would anyone go to their assistance? Answer to the last of these uppermost questions seemed to be: No one. Sweden and Norway, though next in line if the Russian march was really a march to the North Sea, evinced great sympathy, mobilized men on their eastern borders, but were accounted unlikely to fight. Answer to the first question seemed to reside in the iron-hard souls and bodies of the Finns. Their Commander in Chief, Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, struck their battle note as follows...
...Franklin Roosevelt had just announced his decision not to furnish U. S. naval convoys to returning refugees (see p. 9) and John Kennedy was abruptly taken aback to find that this subject was passionately uppermost in his interviewers' minds...
That day Franklin Roosevelt's press conference was a grave business. One question was uppermost in all minds. Correspondent Phelps Adams of the New York Sun uttered it: "Mr. President . . . can we stay out of it?" Franklin Roosevelt sat in silent concentration, eyes down, for many long seconds. Then, with utmost solemnity, he replied: "I not only sincerely hope so, but I believe we can, and every effort will be made by this Administration...
...imperialist of the Rudyard Kipling school, Winston Churchill's stands on domestic issues have usually been so reactionary that he has never picked up much of a popular following. Herbert Asquith once said he had "genius without judgment." But on the one subject of German aggression, now uppermost in British minds, he has followed such a straight, consistent line that in an emergency Winston Churchill might well become Britain's "Man of the Hour...
...Uppermost in the minds of the missionaries, however, is the eradication of sensual dancing. Quoting from "The First Dancing Lesson," they said, "It is a pity that those who attempt to defend the dance could not see a young innocent girl taking her first dancing lesson...