Word: layed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When real war finally came last week, it found, stretched across the northern fringe of Europe from Antwerp to Helsingfors, a tight-knit little band of neutrals, determined to keep their neutrality and to defend it, if need be, with force. Between Germany and France lay The Netherlands, Belgium, tiny Luxembourg, and, south of the Westwall and Maginot Lines, Switzerland. All of them were ruled by Napoleon, liberated by Wellington. Along the North and Baltic Seas, where the British and German Navies may meet, were Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Together these eight countries might turn the balance of power...
Philadelphia: Thousands of tons of scrap iron lay stranded on the docks, its eventual destination uncertain and unknown...
...York and Boston: On the docks lay few cargoes of foodstuffs, machinery, tools, waiting to be picked up. Whether ships would come for future contracts no exporter would venture to predict. For the first time since 1918 war risk insurance on U. S. vessels had doubled, tripled...
...headlined woe: >Closed to the public were Westminster Abbey's Royal Chapels, their tombs sandbagged, many of their effigies removed. On the black marble slab of Great Britain's Unknown Warrior in the Abbey's nave, a wreath of brown orchids inscribed "The Italian Embassy" lay beside a wreath from President Albert Lebrun of France. >Great Britain's Cardinal Kinsley told nuns they might wear headdresses that fitted over gas masks, recommended "a simplified form . . . consisting of: 1) an unstarched, tight-fitting cap or snugly fitting under-veil, over which the respirator could easily be adjusted...
...says: 'Friend, I have no small brilliants about me.'" The cost of living, Walpole added, rose immediately when Clive returned. Not everybody was amused. Investigated by Parliament, Clive defended his greed: "Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation! . . . an opulent city lay at my mercy; its richest bankers bid against each other for my smiles : I walked through vaults which were thrown open to me alone, piled on either hand with gold and jewels!" Charges of corruption against him were dismissed, but on Nov. 22, 1774, worn out by struggle, ill will...