Word: impendingness
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3. Night shifts in plants throughout Germany must work in constant apprehension of shortly impending death or injury, and in the knowledge that as neighboring plants are eliminated their own chances of escape become progressively smaller.
Now McNutt's great worry was the nation's impending manpower shortage, heading toward a crux in the fall. To cope with it he might have to order nonwar workers to switch to new jobs, might have to "freeze" war workers in their present jobs. But until the...
Nahas and Makram, No. 1 and No. 2 men in the Wafd Party which dominates Egypt, had loved each other for 20 years. The cause of their quarrel was profound. Shrewd, 66-year-old Nahas felt that he needed to concentrate authority in one hand-his own-to get his...
The London press has long inveighed against this new freedom, quoting vicars in denunciation of pubs which allow women to buy drinks, hinting at the iniquities of dormitories for the women's military services, prophesying the dangers awaiting wives who are separated for the first time from their husbands...
Actual entrance into war found her ready to do her part quietly, without fanfare. Mexico, which has confiscated just under a billion dollars' worth of Axis property, created special coastal defense commands, bombed one enemy submarine, last week announced the impending conscription of an army of 1,000,000...