Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort, with the backing of other American republics, but held his hand. It seemed he had fired for peace all the ammunition left in his locker. Next move would be to recall Congress, ask it to revise Neutrality. But that move he could not well take before actual war broke and its form was known. Meantime, should formal war be declared, he was bound to withhold from its angers all U. S. weapons (above calibre .22) and ammunition, from pistols through planes, motors and warships to flamethrowers, to the belligerents...
...each seemed bound to lose allies as a result of Hitler's bombshell, simply because a readjustment of forces had taken place, the Axis was the first to lose. Nor did the newly launched Moscow-Berlin collaboration, whatever its fate, future, purpose, gain when Tokyo broke with Berlin, her former Axis partner...
...last the bombshell broke; the Pact was signed. All the world had predicted it, all the world had known it all along; but all the world was nevertheless profoundly shocked and surprised when it came...
Visiting General Gamelin in France when news of the pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left...
...camel overcame a fresh temptation. His last temptation was to choose between a bag of ashes and a magic wishing necklace that would enable the youngest camel to wish his mother to have her own little oasis out in the desert. By choosing the necklace the sensible youngest camel broke all precedents, since others had always chosen the bag of ashes because "it was the politest and nicest thing...