Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would happen if casualties rose to 60% of the forces engaged, as they did in World War I (last week they were .004%), nobody knew. In the long, dreary, penetratingly cold winter nights, with their cities blacked out and air-raid sirens screaming, Germany's disciplined people might crack, as they did in 1918, and turn against their leaders. But last week they felt about the war as they did about the new consolidated sausage which took the place of the three score varieties of wursts they could eat in pre-war days: they did not like...
...Britain, where at the first crack of war all transmitters but two were shut down, British Broadcasting Corp. resumed its normal schedules, announced that the Government would impose no penalty on a British subject for listening to foreign stations...
...after the Times rebuked its crack London reporter, Frederick Birchall and some 30 other correspondents gathered in the big, cream-walled conference room on the first floor of the Ministry to recite their grievances. Director General Eric Drummond Lord Perth (who later in the week became Advisor on Foreign Publicity and was succeeded by Sir Findlater Stewart) and his Chief Censor. Admiral Cecil Vivian Usborne, heard them patiently, anxious to satisfy the men on whose work depends the U. S. public's opinion of Britain's war. They agreed to appoint more censors, keep them on duty...
Grand strategy of the Polish Armies was to retire slowly, conserve manpower, shorten their lines. Their Western stand was to be on a line running south from Torun to Czestochowa. From there South to behind Teschen they had a fortified front which the German divisions must crack or outflank...
When seven others had had their turn, the Guildsmen motored to New Jersey, where they battered away at the carillons of Rumson and Morristown, then proceeded to the New York World's Fair, where they had a crack at the carillons in the Belgian and Netherlands pavilions. After three days of it, the 18 peal-drunk Guildsmen shook hands and staggered home to their own belfries, after the biggest U. S. carillonary jam ever...