Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have reported: 1) that Führer Henlin was virtually a "straw man," repeatedly refusing to commit himself and saying he must first consult Berlin; 2) that unless Britain again issued a firm warning to Germany, Lord Runciman might not be able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring had just told foreign diplomat: "I have definite information that in case the German Army marches into Czechoslovakia the British will not lift a finger...
...situation seriously threatened to get out of hand when Sudeten German headquarters issued a trouble-kindling proclamation: "The Party leadership is not able any longer to assume responsibility for the freedom and property of its supporters. We, therefore, withdraw the instruction not to exercise the right of self defense. Party members in every case are free, when attacked, to make use of this right...
...tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake. The engineer and his fireman, scalded and dead, were lying three miles back, along the Selma grade...
...make shivers run in me. I have seen my Dad scared and my Mom uneasy at the bridge table, but I thought when I got here and passed beneath a gate like that"--he flung a hand at the portal they had just left behind--"I would find peace and confidence. But I see that I too will have to become afraid...
...Berle Jr. to suggest a program for the investigators. To nervous, cocky Adolf Berle (rhymes with surly), this assignment was what a murder trial is to a cub reporter. Early in July Mr. Berle completed his "Memorandum of Suggestions." It was not quite the sort of thing New Dealers hand out to the press, but last week it finally did get into print...