Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the present war started, enlightened statesmen of the little States of southeastern Europe have believed that the Danubian countries must either hang together or be hanged separately. They urged the formation of a bloc of Danubian neutrals who would temporarily forget their sectional differences. Fortnight ago even Hungary, most intransigent of revision-seeking powers, was believed ready to join up. Then last week something happened: the big powers yanked their strongest strings, and Danubian federation was once more pulled asunder. The biggest string stretched was Count...
Only other man who ever made such a claim was Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, who died in 1920. Both Cook and Peary were once presidents of Manhattan's famed Explorers' Club. Their portraits now hang there, side by side, although over Peary and Cook, three decades ago, exploded one of the fiercest controversies in the history of exploration...
...getting her country safely through World War II. A devout Christian, she can hardly be in sympathy with the moral or spiritual aims of either Hitler or Hirohito. Orderly, she is excruciatingly shocked by the international disorders of this, her second, World War. Thrifty and patriotic, she must hang on to her and her country's fortunes to the last drop of her Dutch blood. Helpless, about all she can do is keep one face East, one face West, and hope...
...approach has been experimental in that the sets and music form the true theme of the play. The main story serves only as a backbone on which to hang short scenes expressing the vast and varied character of the people forming a great metropolis," Freedley said...
...having made it clear that there were some things that could not be surrendered, even by the weak to the strong, the delegates left for Helsinki. Negotiations, indefinitely postponed, apparently broke down on Russia's demands for a naval base at or near Finland's best port, Hangö. "What would the English think," asked Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, "if the Isle of Wight were in foreign hands, or Americans if Sandy Hook were in the same position?" Next move, he said (without guessing whether it would be diplomatic or military) would be Russia...