Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers began ominously moving around on their side of the Czechoslovak border. In this crisis the Czechoslovakian Republic, the keystone of democracy in central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over the line would have been a dead German. Thus that crisis was solved, and little Eduard Benes was heard to observe that the machinery of a democratic state can work fast...
...city looked like a human slaughterhouse. Japanese bombers, apparently operating from an off-sea base near the Portuguese colony of Macao, for the third successive week streaked bombs down on Canton in almost daily raids. To Canton's symphony of stenches was added another last week-that of dead, decaying flesh, intensified by sweltering heat. Rescue workers, handkerchiefs over their nostrils, scrabbled in the ruins to drag out the injured, could give no account of the total casualties. "The city is like an open grave in which the living and dead are mixed inextricably," cabled one harried United Pressman...
...away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open. But the second objective was more than fulfilled. Terror-stricken thousands fled to the safety of the paddy fields and their "lucky hills," pockmarked with the huge stone armchair graves of their dead. Thousands more surged up to the gates of Hong Kong, only to be refused admission because they could not produce the required 20 Hong Kong dollars...
Meanwhile, persistent air bombings continued to take their tolls not only of Leftist Spain's civilian population but of British ships, British seamen. Typical daily list of civilian casualties read: Alicante, 30 dead, 118 injured; Valencia, 17 dead, many injured; Segorbe, 12 dead, 30 injured...
...competitors for 36 years, the Century and Broadway, now alike in contour as a brace of eels, glided off this week on the Manhattan-Chicago run in what looked like another dead heat. Each was scheduled to make the run in 16 hours, a half-hour faster than before. This meant that Central's blue-streaked, silver Century must cover its 960 miles in 960 minutes, the gold-banded. Tuscan-red Broadway its 908 miles in the same time...