Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the struggle in Spain was between the old-line feudalists that have long governed the country and the new-fangled Fascists who now want to control it, on the broader international scene the issue was essentially one between the Rome-Berlin Axis and the British-French Peace Front. The Monarchists have always been pro-English; the Falangists are ready to sign an alliance with Germany and Italy. Passing British-owned Gibraltar on an Italian cruiser recently, Minister of the Interior Serrano Suñer was heard to mutter that the Rock's days of "disgrace" were numbered...
Passing over the border from France into Spain one afternoon last week was a motorcade of five armored motor trucks, a motorcycle police escort, a car of armed police inspectors. The trucks carried $40,000,000 in gold bullion, and its passing from French to Spanish hands ended a long dispute. Bank of France vaults having held it for years, the Spanish Republican Government and Generalissimo Francisco Franco's Government fought over its ownership during the Civil War. When the war ended, the French were reluctant to relinquish the gold until Spain paid for the board and lodging...
...Nash is also the author and executor of a comprehensive economic plan designed to turn agricultural New Zealand into a nation which can at least partially produce its own manufactured goods, and thus be less dependent on world prices. Although realizing that New Zealand will not for a long time be able to supply all its wants, Minister Nash's idea is to build factories to enable the country to manufacture "secondary" articles. And he expects Mother England to supply the necessary capital to get his plan started...
Sport fans have long been accustomed to rowdy baseballers grousing about the ball they are compelled to use. As tennis-balls have grown fuzzier (to please hard-court players), some tennists have begun to grouse, too. Last week, during the Seabright Invitation Tournament, first of the four major grass-court tune-ups before the National championships at Forest Hills, all the top-flight U. S. tennists roared their disapproval of the extra-fuzzy tennis ball put in use this year (and well liked by the average player because it lasts longer), loudly demanded that some of its fuzz be removed...
...like smacking a cantaloupe," said U. S. No. 1 Bobby Riggs, noisily objecting to the heaviness of the long-haired ball after it becomes grass-stained and moist. United States Lawn Tennis Association officials, ruefully watching their top-notchers eliminated in the early rounds, pondered using a special ball for future grass-court tournaments, retaining the fuzz ball for play on clay and concrete, where its heavy nap is no hindrance...