Word: discreeter
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Adolf Hitler's treaty-wrecking example boomed down the Danube last week and emboldened Handsome Adolf's native land to rearm too. Little Austria's "defy" to the Powers that defeated Imperial Austria was however, a discreet and muted echo of big Germany's. Timidly Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg whose grip on congested Austrian politics is steadily growing limper, announced: "The Cabinet Council expressed the unanimous conception that the granting to Austria of full equality was a self-evident supposition." In a firmer tone he removed Austrian rearmament from the realm of supposition by adding: "The necessary...
...food protest yesterday. Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, said: "If there is anything wrong with the food, it certainly will be remedied. Four other Houses are served from the same kitchen and have made no complaints." Roy L. Westcott, manager of the Dining Halls, preserved a discreet silence...
Author Faulkner likes Joycean agglutinations. Example from Pylon: " 'Deposit five cents for three minutes please,' the bland machine-voice chanted. The metal stalk sweatclutched, the guttapercha bloom cupping his breathing back at him, he listened, fumbled, counting as the discreet click and cling died into wirehum...
Archbishop, Cameraman. Discreet Cameraman Thomas Walker, who threw away his tiny $300 camera before slipping out of Russia last spring, confined his snapping to the Ukraine. Of that district, in the House of Lords, the Archbishop of Canterbury later said: "There was going on a famine of a degree of severity which has hardly ever before been known...
...bracing is done before the child is six months old, he will suffer little inconvenience or pain. In the second six months bones start to become rigid and the operation becomes more difficult and painful. Thereafter manipulation may cause secondary injuries which the orthopedist may well avoid by discreet use of knife, chisel and mallet...