Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Britain's air bases in the Midlands to Germany's naval bases at Cuxhaven, Wilhelmshaven and Brunsb?is some 500 miles. Both sides presently acknowledged that British bombers had gone to work on Germany's fleet at these ports, Britain claiming damaging hits on at least two battleships, Germany...
By Land. All down the 250-mile Maginot Line, heavy guns started talking at dawn Monday. By nightfall of the first day the French were believed to have launched two high-powered flanking attacks, one at the "Burgundy Gate" or "Belfort Gap" just above the Swiss border, another into the...
Before announcing his neutrality, Mussolini had gone through the motions of an Axis partner about to go to work. He conducted a mobilization so complete that, when they realized its scope, it shocked his people. The nation was blacked out. Coffee was forbidden to all but soldiers, gasoline to all...
But everybody jumped when at the first shot the war of nerves leaped the Atlantic. All the frights in the Balkans that had seemed remote to U. S. citizens became more understandable; the pledges of neutrality of Rumania, Yugoslavia, Italy, looked a little more real in discussions of U. S...
M-Day. Early one afternoon a large crowd of common workmen walked briskly through the streets of Warsaw, stopping beside clear spaces on walls every few paces, slopping paste on the walls, spreading out four posters which spelled one word: WAR. One ordered general mobilization (all able-bodied men between...