Word: devours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through safely since the beginning of the war, despite the efforts of the U-boats and long-range bombers. My Mother, Father and Sister read it from cover to cover, it is then sent to me, and after I have finished with it, my friends in the Battery all devour it eagerly. It is then passed on to the Red Cross Society, so you see this copy has a particularly large circulation...
When France fell, the sun set with quiet, dark finality on the Turkish Republic's brief day of greatness. Having oriented herself both economically and strategically toward the Allies, Turkey is now isolated from the one remaining, embattled Ally, while Germany seeks to devour her economically. Her only protector is Russia, to whom she appealed last week...
...foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron (Bofors), was also supposed to have turned up in Rio de Janeiro with an offer for exploitation by a Swedish-German consortium said to include Krupp. Hoping to interest U. S. capital, Brazil issued pointed warnings that unless...
...piping hot dip in cold honey until completely covered. . . ." When we got hot over the blitzkrieg that swept 13 nations out of sight, the Japs began to pour the cold honey. . . . Every contemptible compromise of principle was proposed so that Japan could: ". . insert entire morsel in mouth and leisurely devour...
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair...