Word: interrupting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven days on obscure roads and railroads leading to Switzerland, Occupied France and Vichy. His closest call came when the Gestapo searched a train on which he was talking with a German officer. He got the German into such a hot argument that the Gestapo did not wish to interrupt the officer with inquiries...
...interrupt a news story with a commercial. This has a "demoralizing effect...
...could, as well, cut off China's present lifeline and any alternates which the Allies might devise. He might, if he could get bases in Madagascar from the Vichy-french, interrupt the British supply line to Suez and the Middle East...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who has been a stalking horse for the Administration before, was the most vociferous. He called for convoying "without another day's delay or dallying." Shouting down all attempts of other Senators to interrupt him, he cried: "Do we want to let millions be crucified later because there is a jeopardy that a few might die an honorable death now?" The U.S., Pepper stormed, should get tough, "occupy the points of vantage from which these monsters are preparing to strike at us ... Greenland, Iceland, the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, the Canary Islands...
...nearby offices of NBC and CBS were also hit by bombs that same night and completely wrecked. Among those injured was NBC's Fred Bate, who last week was headed for the U. S. to convalesce. When the bombing occurred, neither network had to interrupt its comment from London. Their copy can be prepared anywhere, and their broadcasting is done from BBC's bombproof basement studio...