Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high went the wreckage in a spectacle unprecedented: bits of old illusions, old securities, old trusts-pieces of Communist doctrine-crumbling fragments of Nazi propaganda-hopeful beliefs of humble people, with here & there a genuine casualty-the time-tested and best methods of dealing between nations, diplomatic usages, conventions, complacency, the Third International, the advocates of appeasement, the believers in Hitler as a bulwark against Communism, the believers in Communism as a bulwark against Hitler, newspapermen, diplomats, intelligence officers, liberals, a skyful of hopefuls lit by the lurid glare of reality. The roar was terrific. Gleefully in Berlin Nazis gazed...
...best peasants could look forward to another forcible "transplanting" to the East-a trip likely to make the trek of migratory farmers in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath seem like a quiet vacation. At worst they could expect another hurricane like the uprooting of the peasants in 1930, when 5,000,000 families had their property grabbed. Up to last week what happened to them had depended on one man-Joseph Stalin, who had always been held up to them as the friend of the toiling masses. Now it also depended on a second-Adolf Hitler...
Britain's efforts for peace-"God knows I have tried my best"-Britain would fight...
Cabinet. Last week's news of the German-Russian Pact put Mr. Churchill in his best vein, inspired a note of confidence he has scarcely expressed so firmly since the Boer War. Gone in an instant were the generous ideals and humane motives that Communism professed to accept, vindicated in the same instant were: 1) his distrust of Russia, 2) his fear of Germany, 3) his criticisms of the Prime Minister's delay, 4) his attacks on Munich as paving the way for a new crisis. Vindicated above all was his vision of the ideal British Empire...
...York's Meadow Brook Club in 1895 a handful of U. S. "golf widows," clad in ground-sweeping skirts and cartwheel hats, staged a tournament to select a national women's golf champion. Best "golf-erine" of the day was Mrs. C. S. Brown of Shinnecock Hills who posted a score of 132 for the 18-hole, one-round tournament...