Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decade ago the United States assumed the initiative in the limitation of naval armaments when President Harding invited the leading powers to the Washington Naval Conference. Much constructive work was accomplished. Since that time it has been a bone of contention among some experts as to the lasting benefits acquired from the conference. Perhaps its proximity to the war blinded an opportunity for the permanent success of the project...
...parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes of Le Brix to outdo ''Doudou" Costes, who preëmpted the kudos of their 1928 world flight and thereby created a personal enmity, were shattered...