Word: impendingness
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Last week both were changing. Westminster faced an impending rule requiring public (i.e., private) schools to accept scholarship children for at least 30% of their enrollments. Even if they returned to their top hats, Westminster boys would have to doff them to Socialist Ministers of the Crown. Meanwhile, they went...
The Nick of Time. Halder decided to strike on the night of Sept. 14. He sent a Panzer division to General von Witzleben at Berlin without arousing suspicion. Just when the coup seemed completely assured of success, London announced the umbrella-toting Prime Minister's impending visit to Hitler...
Died. Sir Ronald Lindsay, 68, moose-tall (6 ft. 3 in.) aloof British Ambassador to the U.S. (1930-1939); of coronary thrombosis; in Bournemouth, England. Forced to call his first press conference when a frustrated U.S. press demanded more news about the impending 1939 visit of the King & Queen, Sir...
You Came Along (Hal Wallis-Paramount) almost justifies the people who "don't want to cry at the movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending...
Harold L. Ickes, irritated by new rumors of his impending resignation as Secretary of the Interior, spelled out the situation in his own sweet way: 1) he had offered his resignation when President Truman took office; 2) all told, he had submitted at least six resignations; 3) two different names...