Word: knell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal with the Kremlin. Molotov offered German unity and independence-boons which any German Chancellor would find hard to turn down. But the Soviet offer had its price tag: neutrality, and withdrawal from the Atlantic Alliance. Konrad Adenauer believes with all his strength that this would be the death knell of a free Germany...
...Brixton) were so unconstricted and free from world-worry that the occasional explosions of war and revolution fell on their ears like detonations from another planet. So inbred was their sense of imperturbable peace that, when World War I broke out, none suspected that it was sounding the knell of the golden echo. Indeed, Author Garnett; fussing with his fungi, saw no need to join the army. His friend John Maynard Keynes (who grew up to be the great economist) had assured him "that the war could not last much more than a year." Author Garnett closes his book with...
...hours of 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. . . . Chain your dogs and lock up your fowl." By 1910, more than the local farmers were embattled. That year, the crowds were so large and unmanageable that four spectators were killed, and 22 more ended up in hospitals. That race sounded the knell of U.S. road racing for many a year...
...Shall Never Surrender." Orr did not know it, but his action was the death knell of Operation China. The news hit British headquarters like a tropical thunderstorm : there were conferences and ultimatums, but the only hope that remained lay with Policemen Henderson and Ruck. At week's end, the pair made one last brave attempt to make Operation China work. Heavily armed, but heavier still with bitter disappointment, they drove into a forest rendezvous. It was April 10, the deadline set for Mau Mau surrender; Kareba had promised to return with many chiefs who wanted to give up. Henderson...
After he had heard Eisenhower's first State of the Union speech, a prominent Republican Congressman said the President "had sounded the death-knell f the New Deal." Last week, it seemed everyone was remarking how much New Deal ahead turned up in the second State of the Union message. This shift points up an important result of Eisenhower's domestic year; simply by leaving the basic social programs and tax strategic of past Democratic administrations untouched, Eisenhower has made the New Deal a permanent fixture in American life...