Word: armsful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the world's best correspondents cabled the greatest stories of their lives. In every capital of Europe they followed the swift unfolding of as big a crisis as war or its threat could make (see p. 32). No one of them could see it all. Its spread...
This fight, if it came, Poles felt, would be a "holy war," a war for the ideal of liberty, "for your freedom and ours." They talked, as 600,000 reservists gathered to join the 1,500,000 already under arms, of the strategy that might be used, of a shuttle...
Main obstacle put forth by Hungary to Rumania's proposition was the current presence of 250,000 Rumanian troops in Transylvania, near the Hungarian border. Said a Hungarian spokesman: "Hungary will not negotiate under the pressure of Rumanian arms."
>Some 50,000 fully trained young Jews were available in the Holy Land to swell 10,000 Jews already under arms. British troops in Palestine number about 20,000. To cut off German munitions bootlegged to unruly Arabs, the British last year built a wall along the Trans-Jordan border...
His motive for writing a novel is explained indirectly in a commentary on his poetry: "Printing poetry is not only expensive," says Fearing, "but dangerous; it marks you as a public enemy. My first book [Angel Arms]disgraced me; my second [Poems'] bankrupted me; after my third one [Dead...