Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strategy of General Gamelin's push in the Saar was to draw German troops from the Eastern Theatre to meet a threatened grand attack-or he was shrewdly waiting for the Germans to get even further into Poland before turning on the real heat. Just as France's main Maginot Line is manned by veteran regulars, with young reservists performing the attack work, so Germany's Wall is manned by 20 divisions (some 250,000 men) of the regular Land-wehr, mostly veterans of 35-45, specially trained for defense. For sallies and counterattack which the Germans...
...Great Britain is concerned. . . . Why did we feel it necessary ... to defend this Eastern power when our interests lie in the West, and when your leader has said he has no interest in the West? The answer is-and I regret to have to say it-that nobody In this country any longer places any trust in your leader's word. . . . Your leader is now sacrificing you, the German people, to a still more monstrous gamble of war to extricate himself from the impossible position into which he has led himself and you. In this...
...most U. S. newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Comet Class championship regatta, held on Chesapeake Bay, wrote the most exciting headlines of last weekend. For the Comet (originally christened Crab) is the family-tree-conscious Eastern Shore's own baby...
Gideons use "Bible" as a verb. They have Bibled 95% of U. S. hotel rooms; their banner distribution of 103,000 Bibles in the year ending this summer brought their total Bibling to 1,580,588. Now the Gideons are looking for new fields. They have Bibled Eastern Airlines, the Clipper ships, are working on American and United Airlines. A new Gideon slogan is: "A Bible in Every Schoolroom in the Nation." Here the going is more chancy. Some States (such as Wisconsin and Washington) expressly forbid Holy Writ in their schools. In others, Gideon Bibling faces restrictions, constitutional...
Shortly thereafter the Fent the ultimatum requests or to fulfill them. . . . A condition exists at our eastern borders which in effect amounts to war. . . . The German Government and the German people have assured the British people time and again that they are desirous of bringing about an understanding with them. . . . If the British Government has refused to consider all these offers, and now makes a reply consisting in overt acts of war, this is not the responsibility of the German people. . . . We shall therefore reply to all acts of attack coming from England, no matter under what form, with...