Word: exactments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME had indeed forecast the genuine possibility of a Reich-Soviet Pact but was amply shocked by the exact time and the manner of the deed...
...characters from three pre-Christian periods, the times 1) of Cyrus and Croesus, 2) of Philip of Macedon, Alexander the Great and Aristotle, 3) of Caesar, Antony and Herod the Great. But these famed figures "are here written of as husbands rather than as heroes." Told in an exact, classical prose, and simply condensing a vast amount of fact, Lives of Wives keeps a shrewd, wifely eye on these celebrated husbands, dissects what was the matter with their wives...
Roots. Historical events do not have exact beginnings; no one could fix the moment of conception of the Bolshevik-Nazi deal. That it came naturally from long-standing desires for a German-Russian understanding was too vague, that it was a spur-of-the-moment deal was impossible. But January 12 of this year may have been the turning point. At a New Year's party in his glittering new Chancellery, Adolf Hitler surprised diplomats by having a long, amiable talk with Russian Ambassador Alexei Fedorovich Mere-kalov. Hitler speaks no Russian, the Ambassador little German, but they understood...
Spanish nightmare of recent months has been fear that Germany and Italy would exact participation in a European war as return for their participation in the Spanish war. Last week the Soviet-German Pact gave Spain a perfect out, which she was quick to seize. How could Spain fight hand in hand with Communism, which she had spent three years stamping out? Last week General Francisco Franco took steps to insure absolute neutrality: closed Spain's border with France, hastened demobilization of his troops, dissolved surviving branches of his General Staff...
While Publisher Knowland ran the paper at a tidy profit, Widow Dargie went to Spain, was welcomed at court, visited the family of one Captain Antonio Rodriguez Martin. Widow Dargie took a fancy to Captain Martin, who was the exact age of her dead son, and took him to California. Captain Martin made an investigation of the Tribune, to see to it (so he said) that her interests were protected...