Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granary of Russia, the Ukraine has long attracted Adolf Hitler as the best potential bread-supplier to the Nazi Fatherland. The Ukrainian masses have also long rebelled against "foreign" rule. They do not like Dictator Stalin, King Carol II of Rumania or their Polish masters. Because they were under German domination for only the eight closing months of the World War, Nazis hope that they prefer German tutelage as the least of evils...
...best aide on whom rests much of the responsibility for the success of this campaign of attrition is China's No. 1 Guerrilla Fighter, modest, crinkly-eyed Chu Teh, Commander of the 8th Route (former Communist) Army. Once hunted by the Generalissimo, with a price of $100,000 on his bullet-shaped head, while Chiang Kai-shek carried on his ten years of futile war against the Communists, Chu Teh now has under him a force of about 150,000 fervent Communist soldiers, another 300,000 embattled farmers, operating behind the Japanese front lines in Shansi and Shantung provinces...
Last week Czecho-Slovaks, busy making the best of their abbreviated state, stopped work for a moment to take melancholy leave of General Louis Eugène Faucher, for 20 years head of France's military mission in the former Czechoslovakia. During the recent crisis General Faucher resigned his commission in the French Army, offered his services to President Benes. Reviewing a guard of honor at the station in Prague, the General wept as he kissed the flag of the country whose army he had so largely created himself. As his train pulled out, a military band played...
Sportswriters agreed that "rugby américain" would never catch on in France because "it was too much like an autobus collision." The part of the game the Parisians liked best was the huddle, "when they gather to cheer . . . before each play." At the opening game confused spectators, uncertain when to cheer, decided after a few plays that the huddle was the logical one. The equally confused U. S. footballers, who-unable to hear their quarterbacks-misunderstood their signals, wondered whether the acoustics would be better in Toulouse, Marseille, Bordeaux...
Playing for time, Missouri waited for official word from the Court, refused to say what it would do with Lloyd Gaines, now a clerk in the Michigan civil service. Best guess was that the Legislature would start a law course at Lincoln University...