Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Putting the world on notice that, if war should break while he was gone, he would instantly summon Congress into special session to revise Neutrality, Franklin Roosevelt left Hyde Park, went down to the sea in the cruiser Tuscaloosa. He rounded Cape Cod, radioed "Well done" to the Squalus salvagers who last week dragged the sunken submarine two miles toward shore until it stuck in an uncharted mud lump. The President proceeded to his mother's place at Campobello Island where, 18 years ago, a ducking in the icy water was followed by the infantile paralysis attack which crippled...
China's onetime Premier Wang Ching-wei, who is hourly expected to bob up as head of a super-puppet government in Nanking, broadcast an appeal from Japanese-held Canton. He begged South China to break with the Central Government, make peace (under himself) with Japan. Wang sniped at his old rival Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose tremendous popularity, along with Wang's lack of it, has undoubtedly been the main incentive for the would-be-puppet's campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times...
...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...
...morning of March 21, 1918, a heavy German bombardment opened a vast offensive designed to break between the French and British armies where they joined in the devastated regions of the Somme. Gas soon shrouded the British batteries and their fire ceased. A little before 9 a. m. masses of German troops released from the Eastern Front poured through the fog toward General Cough's British-battalion after battalion, column after column, complete with field bakeries, ammunition trains, medical units, until more than 1,000,000 men were in motion, and advancing columns stretched back 45 miles behind...
...veritable fury of destruction seized hold of me. Break it up! I wanted to shout. Smash away! Bust it to bits! Everything had gone red in front of my eyes. If I had had an axe or a lump of iron in my hand I should have hit out with it and smashed up myself and everyone else with the wild recklessness of a maniac...