Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unanimous" vote condemning Soviet Russia in the Assembly, although unanimous notes are not necessarily there, President Carl J. Hambro, also Speaker of Norway's Storting (Parliament), tried an old parliamentary trick. He simply acked all those in favor of the resolution to remain seated. No delegate was brave enough to rise and declare he was for the Soviet Union. In the Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa and Egypt. Significantly...
...conning tower, Captain Hans Langsdorff talked quickly and confidently with the navigator. This job should be easy. Overwhelming superiority in armament and firepower. The cruiser-identified now as the Ajax, 6,985 tons-would not dare come in close enough to dent the Spee...
...argument tonight rests on the premise that there exists today a reasonably possible ground for successful negotiation. It was precisely that premise that I tried to show last week-with great regret and not without knowledge-that I doubted. . . . I do not believe that at present there is evidence enough to justify the course recommended by Lord Darnley. . . . I am always prepared to negotiate. . . . It does not need much imagination to see the damage which some of the speeches made tonight are capable of inflicting on the nation's cause...
Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery crew, shell her or set some TNT below, and give her a one-way ticket to Davy Jones. Then get away...
Three cruisers to fight. She should be able to wallop them. The two light cruisers carried 6-inchers-too light to pierce the Spee'?, heavy armor, but plenty big enough to do damage far forward and aft, where the skin was thin, and in parts of the superstructure. And they could do six and one-half knots better than the Spee, maybe eight and one-half with all the truck-&-barnacles the German had picked up in the southern seas. The heavy cruiser was something to think about-8-inchers (they could crack most of the Spee...