Word: breach
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe that the War Department will carry out its threat to call to the colors only fifty per cent of the graduates of the second training camps for reserve officers. To commission the remainder and send them to their homes for an indefinite period without pay would be a breach of promise on the part of the Government. The training camps full quota of officers would be immediately required. In consequence thousands of men beyond draft age gave up their jobs and suspended many responsibilities in the belief that their services were really needed. If these men pass their examinations...
...essential part in the national defence. As such they must be a powerful, disciplined organization, fitted for difficult tasks and heavy responsibilities. They must be able to act promptly and intelligently in great emergencies, just as the French reservists in the present war, who threw themselves into the breach and saved their nation from defeat...
Most of those who talk nonchalantly about our entering the war do not seem to have the remotest realization of what that step would mean in every branch of our daily life. An open breach with the Central Powers would almost certainly be followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more...
...peace, will do so for the sake of American safety and American interests. It is not likely that America's proposal will be accepted if she says, in effect: "We propose a world league to enforce peace, every member of which pledges itself to forcibly prevent or punch any breach of the world's peace-but we ourselves cannot promise to furnish a first-class military organization on less than two years' notice." President Wilson's "peace between equals" is a proposal of peace based on equal rights; but equal rights, in the world today, require equal duties...
...wall, and the wall was surrounded by a moat. The sapper (or miner) dug under ground until he reached the foundations of the wall. Here he built a shelter by leaning beams against the wall to protect him while he undermined its foundations. As fast as he made a breach in the wall he propped it with beams to keep it from tumbling on him as he worked. Finally he set fire to the beams and fled, leaving the wall to cave in as the supports burned away...