Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making promises to join in the destruction of civilization, it would be far more intelligent for us to bring to them the means of salvation in the form of an absolute gift. . . ." Planner Neylan pictured the world shock which such a gesture would deliver, how all hands would drop their guns to scramble for the money...
...observed that Poland would soon achieve a position of power in Europe greater than Italy's; after the first anti-Semitic outbreaks under the Nazis he considered it likely that Hitler would try to make peace with the people he has wronged." He also prophesied that Hitler would drop his demands for colonies in return for a free hand in Central Europe. A month before Germany occupied Czecho-Slovakia Augur released an inside story to the effect that Hitler was contemplating restoring the Sudeten area to the Czechs...
...demanded autonomy; and, agitating for it, Croat Leader Vladimir Matchek, dubbed the "Croatian Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks, organized farmers' strikes and riots to hamstring the Government. Though nominally exponents of peasant-democ racy, in recent years some Croats began to drop hints that an approach to Germany might be the only way to wring concessions from the Serb Government. Such hints reminded the Yugoslav Government all too vividly of the actions last March of the Slovaks, who finally appealed to Führer Hitler to "save" their country from the Czechs...
...ment's got no business a-payin' out relief money and a-givin' WP and A jobs to farmers. . . . If 'twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...
Losing morale when Tom Healey weakened at the start, the Crimson played listlessly, committing eight miscues and connecting safety only four times, to drop its first Circuit tilt this year...