Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew eloquent: 2,000,000 men under arms in Germany, with 500,000 to be added in August; heavy concentrations of German troops on the Polish frontier from Danzig to Cracow; five German divisions in motion near Breslau; schools in Bohemia transformed into hospitals; troops and supplies moving east through Ostmark*-all this convinced him that "it would be disastrous, it would be pathetic, it would be shameful for the House to write itself off as an effective and potent factor in the situation. . . ." If things were in dead balance, no move should be taken that might weaken resistance...
...Then he grew sarcastic. Personally, he said, as the Prime Minister scowled, he trusted Mr. Chamberlain's good faith, but "it will be a very hard thing for the Government to say to the House of Commons, 'Be gone. Run off and play. Take your gas masks with you. Don't worry about public affairs. Leave them to the gifted and experienced Ministers, who, so far as our defenses are concerned, landed us where we were landed in September...
...sipping tea in his favorite Budapest café. Suddenly he heard locomotives rumbling, reverberating, dying away. Startled, he raised his head. He knew there had been no trains on the streets of Budapest for 40 years. But he took no treatment for his head-splitting hallucinations until his eyesight grew dim, his legs shaky, his stomach rebellious...
...Fascist notions of the youthful, fiery Ramón Serrano Suñer, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Minister of the Interior and, next to the Generalissimo, Spain's most powerful figure. Last week the list of Señor Serrano Suñer's opponents grew to include, among others, such military stalwarts as Generals Miguel Aranda, hero of the Oviedo siege; José Solchaga, the commander of the Navarrese Corps, José Móscardo, defender of the Toledo Alcázar in the early days...
While Mr. Hudson claimed that he had talked to Dr. Wohlthat only in his "private, personal capacity," the suspicion grew among Laborites, Liberals and non-appeasing Conservatives that the Chamberlain Government had far from re formed. "Is the Government still yearning after appeasement?" angrily asked Labor Leader Arthur Greenwood. "Is it prepared to try to buy off Hitler by sacrificing Danzig and perhaps Poland itself? Is it toying with the idea that it can, by sweet reasonableness and financial aid, persuade Germany to beat her swords into plowshares...