Word: half
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines you recognized and praised the constructive work done by the King in the field of economic and moral regeneration of the country. Then, in the balance of the article, nearly nine columns, you went on and repeated old, used, rehashed and over publicized half-true stories...
...Chamberlain's reply startled the House and jarred the sensibilities of several nations. The Government, he said, would shortly authorize the Royal Navy to seize not only contraband goods suspected of going into Germany, but all "exports of German origin or ownership." Germany, lying on her economic back half-throttled, had started kicking below the belt. "As a measure of justified reprisal" for "this fresh outrage," Germany should be throttled entirely. She should be cut off from her export markets, from which she derives foreign exchange to buy war sinews...
...starboard 6-inchers. Deutschland's, third salvo put out all the Britisher's lights, halted the electric ammunition hoists; a fourth tore away the bridge and wireless room. The second raider circled astern and attacked from Rawalpindi's, port side, but she fought on for half an hour until her last gun was silenced and she was ablaze everywhere except forecastle and poop. Of three boatloads of survivors, two were believed captured by Deutschland. All remaining hands perished when, after burning four hours, Rawalpindi turned turtle to starboard and foundered. Another British cruiser, speeding to the scene...
...sank a small ship which Berlin claimed was a Q-boat-an armed Britisher disguised as a Dutchman to lure submarines. The British identified this ship as the innocent 5,133-ton Dutch freighter Sliedrecht, whose crew was turned loose to drift in a lifeboat for seven and a half days...
Recalling that the World War had progressed two and one-half years before he was imprisoned "for the conspiracy of opposing American entrance into the war," Browder said that "today, facing the new world war, there are projects under way to send me and others to prison, as preparation for entering...