Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twelve GOP Senators who have not even been mentioned as 1940 Presidential possibilities banded together as the Republican Senatorial Neutrality Club. Their platform: to avoid entangling alliances with six GOP-Hopefuls, to accept any and all entertainment offered by the six Hopefuls...
...Royal Oak, water and fire rose even higher. We saw one waterspout after another followed by a series of huge explosions-white, red and green lights in a fireworks display such as I never had seen before. Pieces of deckwork, masts and smokestacks flew up into the air, giving the impression that the entire ship was blown completely to smithereens...
...last week some 200,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were across the Channel and safely in place. They continued arriving by night, three or four transports at a time, without interruptions. German submarines and the great German Air Force did not even throw a leaflet at them-just as the Allies did little to prevent the Germans from bringing up hundreds of thousands of men and tons of supplies to man the West-wall...
...standing on a corner with his officer guide when up whirled an official car driven by an officer, with the chauffeur on the back seat. To Mr. Angly's glad amazement, the driver was the Duke, an old friend of his guide. "They chatted a while and even swapped limericks* now as in World War I the favorite British form of arousing the risibles...
...slap, which was no less stinging for being deft, not only reminded the Japanese that they had been slapped before, but made them realize as never before that the U. S. State Department and people had by no means decided to acquiesce to the New Order in Asia, even if their headlines had recently seemed to have forgotten Asia was there. The U. S. was patently in a mood to spank as well as slap...