Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This reference to France was calmly received, but thunderous cheers greeted the Peace Orator's nearest approach to belligerence. "Our foreign policy remains constant: for maintenance of Peace, but only with the guarantee of Equality! . . . One thing is certain, we shall never capitulate...
...spider, with few takers. On the third day the spider began to enmesh the scorpion's stinger in her web, boosted betting odds 5 -to-1, spectators to more than 100. Finally the spider succeeded in lifting the scorpion three inches off the floor, tried time & again to approach it only to be driven back by the deadly stinger's furious lashings...
...games Il Duce threw two armies, totaling 100,000 men, into the barren rocky country between Bologna and Florence. There the Red army of attack began to hammer a Blue defending force. The object of Italy's General Staff was to test in the nearest approach to battle conditions that they could create all the elaborate mechanical devices with which munitions makers have been whiling away the quiet years. Troops will advance this week under shell barrages. There will be clouds of real tear gas to penalize those slow with their masks. Benito Mussolini is particularly anxious to find...
...real reason for his nonattendance has been that during football games the campus at Notre Dame is always quite barren of students and Father O'Hara has found this to be an ideal time to clear up many difficulties for troubled youths who would hesitate otherwise to approach him in the presence of others. Far from being disinterested Father O'Hara is probably the man most interested in Notre Dame's gridiron activities. . . . In this same account TIME overlooked one of Father O'Hara's most noteworthy achievements -the publication of his daily Religious Bulletin...
...climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time on a heart-breaking approach to the saddle before discovering the more feasible access from East Rongbuk Glacier...