Word: anties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Rumania like candy from a baby, and regardless of how much truth lay behind sensational reports of joint action in the Near East being contemplated by Russia and Turkey to overwhelm Syria, Palestine and Iraq, it remained an arresting fact that in Moscow the official tone was markedly anti-British, anti-French and pro-German...
...They promptly cabled to Norwegian, Swedish and Danish shipping firms, offering to charter Scandinavian freighters to carry Soviet timber out by way of ice-free Murmansk and the White Sea to Britain (see map). At latest reports the Scandinavians had not yet decided whether to lease their freighters, and anti-Soviet feeling was running especially high in Sweden...
...anti-Axis Vox Populi has backing in high places. The Royal Family is popularly supposed to have looked with misgivings on the Axis. As the Axis became more unpopular, the Throne gained in popularity until there became noticeable a resurgence of monarchist feeling in Italy. When "Viva Il Duce" is now painted on the walls, the words "Viva Il Re!" are more than likely to be written beside...
...dimly blue-lit trains, learning infantry drill and Spanish, shaking down into an argumentative army in which every officer was "comrade." They had their own language: a man "organized himself" a new rifle, a chocolate bar, a butt; the lethal cigarillos finos they were issued were known as "anti-tanks...
...great western route"). Poets thought him too science-minded, his language too earthy. Conservatives thought his Civil Disobedience revolutionary ("I do not care to trace the course of my dollar . . . till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with. . ."). Radicals and reformers like Alcott thought him anti-social ("God does not approve of the popular movements," said Henry, who believed in reforming oneself first). The good citizens of Concord simply called him a loafer who had thrown away a Harvard education...