Word: come
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon . . . solemn compacts . . . that civilization rests. England would be forever contemptible if it should sit by. ... I have therefore asked you to come to tell you that this morning we sent an ultimatum to Germany. . . . There will...
Like the Due de Morny, who didn't mind the people as long as they didn't come at him downwind, Biddle and Bullitt have had to learn how to shake hands with the grubby masses without visibly wincing at the thought of a soiled white glove. But long before Joe Kennedy was appointed to London, Bullitt-who in Paris goes everywhere, sees everybody, knows all-had made himself a diplomatic success...
...Millions of people in north Europe with gas masks at their belts or dangling from their elbows, fingered these grisly disguises, put them on when alarms sounded, but never needed them. War's worst horror did not come; no gas fell anywhere...
...gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news was already jamming the wires...
...Third great line of German propaganda: to prepare for a peace move after the conquest of Poland. This was done not only in Marshal Goring's Berlin speech-of-the-week, but through the papers of Axis chums in Italy. If peace did not come, the gambit had another usefulness. Germany had no way to escape the guilt of firing the first shot of the war, but the Nazis hoped to create the impression that the British and French could stop...