Word: agag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purposeful quietude. Having called Congress into special session (see p. 12), Franklin Roosevelt had no wish prematurely to provoke the mobilizing forces of Isolation. Idaho's formidable Borah was no adversary to be wantonly aroused. The President stepped as delicately as Agag. Meanwhile, he tried to prevent Republicans from forming a solid front against his foreign policy: to his councils this week he summoned Alf M. Landon and his 1936 running mate, Publisher Frank Knox, as earnest that the White House was prepared to practice national unity, whatever isolationist Republicans in the Senate might...
...long the citizens of Montreal walked delicately as Agag, never knowing what lay beneath their feet. For the violence of the explosions, injuries were surprisingly slight. No one was killed, only 20 injured. In twelve city blocks not a whole window pane remained. Heat from flaming sewers was unbearable. One three-story house was blown to bits. Three of the inmates were blown clear into the street, four more were dug out of the cellar...