Word: costes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bulow, in his first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...
...front celebrated by giving away all her bread and cake-not only free but without presentation of ration cards. Two hundred fellow office workers were treated to free beer by a Berliner who has two sons and a son-in-law at the front-the beer cost him a month's salary. Meanwhile at least one group of the Hitler Youth, after holding a special meeting to celebrate the Führer's latest triumph, rang doorbells and spread the news...
...which faces the rocky fortress of Istein-Germany's "Gibraltar of the Rhine"-sodden French infantrymen came in from patrol to report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...
...expected a scattering of two or three hundred, were surprised by more than 1,000, who sprawled on the floor, leaned against the pillars, clung to the gallery's empty picture frames. ("Don't sit on those frames, please," pleaded the gallery's sweating guards. "They cost ?250 each.") By the time the first week's concerts were over, Pianist Hess had received nearly a hundred letters from famous musicians promising voluntary support, or services for a small fee, to help feed London's starved music public...
...marked contrast to the A. I. L. the new committee, composed largely of labor and leftist elements, set out to turn "nebulous peace sentiment into an articulate program" by the adoption of a definite policy even at the cost of alienating possible members...