Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French had yielded, the Germans retaken virtually all German territory except a few ridges which the French retained as better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck in the hope of landing one on Nazi field headquarters, believed to be somewhere near Castle Thorn. The French withdrawal from the Warndt Forest was effected four days before the Germans learned of it and was performed chiefly to escape flood waters...
Christian X of Denmark, speaking also for Iceland of which he is separately King: "The loyal cooperation of the Nordic States gives hope for the future...
...dearest hope is that the northern nations may be able to contribute to the restoration of peace and smooth out the difficulties of the warring states...
...Events moved with such rapidity during the last fortnight of my mission to Berlin that it proved impossible at the time to give any consecutive account of them. If I have the honor to do so now ... it is with the hope that such an account may be both of immediate interest to your Lordship and serve a purpose from the point of view of historical accuracy...
...would obviously be annoyed-and to U. P., as to I. N. S., the Littick papers are the safest bet. According to U. P., the terms Earl Jones's Beach offered were "unreasonable," therefore not acceptable to the home office. Now Earl Jones threatens to sue, in the hope that he can compel U. P. to give him the wire for which he feels that he contracted. Meanwhile the Litticks are using all three services, and Beach has signed with Transradio Press for five years. Little Transradio (with only 50-odd U. S. newspaper clients, compared with...