Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense of the reality of Lawrence's predicament grows on the audience as the audience sees it growing on Lawrence. When emissaries from the Foreign Office demand the note which the mysterious abductors have forbidden Lawrence to give up, it gradually becomes established that his daughter has become a trump card in a plot to assassinate a diplomat whose death may mean a war. Following the clue he discovers in the note, Lawrence goes to Wapping, tiptoes into a deserted church, finds himself trapped by a fat smiling monster (Lorre) who orders the little girl brought in. The company...
...English managed to insert edgewise the German assimilated without pausing in his stride. At 7:15 p. m. Sir John and Capt. Eden withdrew with negotiation not yet begun. At their Embassy correspondents were given to understand that "the best that can be hoped for" is that Germany will demand as of right an Army as large as the largest (Russia's), an air force as large as the largest (France's) and a navy 30% as large as His Majesty's Government's. "This," prominent Nazis said, "will be sufficient until such time as Germany...
...correspondents' minds there lurked one big question and they popped it at General Doihara. Assuming that Japan, if and when convinced that the Nanking Government really means to collaborate with the Japanese Empire, makes Nanking a loan, just how big a cut will the Southwest Chinese demand? Blandly General Doihara purred in reply: "Ah, that phase of the question I did not discuss...
...rapidly growing automobile graveyards in vacant lots and prairies. "There's no profit nowadays in buying this junk," said he. "The cost of labor in removing the stuff would be greater than any profit you could get out of it. ... And besides there's not enough demand for this kind of material." Another delegate admitted, however, that Japan, biggest buyer of U. S. scrap (TIME, March 11), was now buying 400 tons of scrap aluminum a month. "They can use this material for making fuse caps," said...
...countries combined. Although Der Feuhrer asserted his wish for European peace, he emphasized, in the devious language of diplomacy, his determined opposition to any interference in the "natural relations" between Austria and Germany--a statement which will stick in the crop of Mussolini. Even more serious are the arrogant demands that the Polish Corridor be demolished, that part of Czeckoslovakia be returned, and that the Reich have an air force equal to the French. It is not to be expected that Hitler's seemingly altruistic notion of demanding a huge army to ward off the "red Monace" could deceive...