Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should have sinned against my call by Providence had I failed in my endeavor to lead my native country and my German people of the Ostmark (Austria) back to the Reich...
...both of which were last week laid up for repairs and renovation, and the fast, 26,000-ton French battleships Strasbourg and Dunkerque. Moreover, if war caught the Repulse on the wrong side of the Atlantic, a couple of destroyer flotillas would have to hurry over to escort her back. Battleships are too clumsy and slow to fight off attacks from submarines. Destroyers are needed for that purpose...
...outright rejection of any and all alliances might be equally disastrous. Noteworthy it was last week that Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, after chatting for several days with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano in Venice, traveled to Berlin to see Führer Adolf Hitler. Then he went back home, announced proudly he had "signed nothing...
...Queen Alexandra' dresses . . . what shall we do about figures? We'll want waists a little smaller. We'll want bosoms a little more ample. We'll want hips a little more in evidence. . . . For one thing, you may go in for corset lacing. Front lacing. Back lacing. Lacing that will, when you want, nip in your waist two or three inches. . . . To allow your hips to round out . . . many a new corset aims to release, rather than to flatten, hips -employing soft fabric gores and gussets on the sides to lighten the hip control. . . . The better...
...been so constantly the objects of hatred on the part of their fellow men? ... If they are too clever for us and contrive to beat us in nearly every intellectual and commercial game, in spite of inferiority of numbers and dice consistently loaded against them, we have to fall back upon our numerical preponderance and upon our excess of brute force. Then we begin to envy and to hate them, and every one of their physical, psychological or sociological divergences from our own pattern becomes obnoxious...