Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Denmark helplessly at the mercy of Germany, Finland desperate, and the cave-digging Swedes still uncommitted to a scrap for Scandinavia, Norway delivered what looked like a spunky slap at the glowering Russian Bear by baldly reversing the Russian view of the City of Flint case and turning the ship back to its U. S. crew...
When the Russian bear growls at Great Britain nowadays, the British lion, instead of growling back, usually answers with a broad, friendly grin...
...detachment of Schutzstafel flaunted their authority, marching with Nazi banners and a band. This was more than the Czechs could bear. They rushed the guards, tore down their banner, scattered their ranks. A number were injured before the dutiful Czech police scattered the crowd, arresting several. Later a band of students surrounded a earful of Schutzstaffel officers and threatened them. The officers drew their pistols and fired into the air. When the day was over reports seeped even through the censor's office that four were dead, scores injured, thousands arrested...
...belligerents. The remaining details fall in the province of the State Department. it is right that these duties should be placed in the Executive branch of the government, for that is its function. However, the record of this, branch during the past few months indicates that it will bear close watching...
...only when the library seeks actively to entice undergraduates with its charms as well as with its contents will they as actively respond. Only then can it exert a continual, positive influence in support of scholarship. And only when the Book Center exists can Justin Winsor's philosophy really bear fruit...