Word: anteing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After office hours, during World War I, Plewman trained to become an officer, studied military tactics, earned a lieuten ant's certificate. He applied for overseas service, was never called. Plewman foresaw, before most military men, how World War I must end. On Jan. 2, 1918, he wrote: "Everything points to Germany and Austria-Hungary having tremendous and increasing difficulty in persuading their peoples to fight on. ... An enemy offensive on the Western Front this year would leave the enemy worse off than ever, and doomed to certain defeat." There was an offensive : it ended in defeat...
...ant'i dakoh...
...pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the family's Belgian garden. Shyly and silently Otto walked. Finally he looked at the Countess with his big, soulful brown eyes, relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked out a plan of restoration. The present war, he says, will end with revolution in Austria, which will spread to Bohemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, the rest of Greater Germany. Then he will form a Danubian Federation...