Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with Herr Hitler, launching a new crop of rumors: 1) that a settlement of the Danzig problem was in the air; 2) that Danzig might be part of a general European settlement. Count Ciano went back to Rome. The Premier of Yugoslavia returned to Belgrade. The Regent of Hungary made an unexpected "private" visit to Berlin. Poland's line remained-in Marshal Smigly-Rydz's artful words-peace could not mean "take" for nations, "give" for others. And all over Europe the 8,000,000 men under arms lined up like marksmen preparing to shoot at a ghost...
...cheering and waving on the few survivors of his company after a shell had shot away his hand. One of the small boats had trouble making fast to the mole. In the face of machine-gun fire, the commander of her landing party calmly climbed on to the mole, made fast a grappling iron, fell riddled into...
...tense" between "Westland" (Great Britain) and "Eastland" (Germany). "It is rumored," citizens were warned, "that Eastland bombers are already taking up strategic positions for a sudden attack on Westland territory." Early that evening the first squadrons of 500 Eastland bombers swept in from the Channel and North Sea and made eleven mock raids in 40 minutes...
...their tricky sausages and let them up 700 feet-far lower than would be needed to entangle a real enemy. Defending fighters signaled contact with the raiders by flashing lights, which were checked by staff observers. Effectiveness of the bombers and antiaircraft was recorded photographically. That night Eastland bombers made 100 raids, 500 in the three-day maneuvers, and the Air Ministry reported that, despite poor visibility, the spotters in every case gave defenders advance warning...
...form a Cabinet. Thin, mustached, respected, severe, a shade less conservative than Dr. Colijn, Jonkheer de Geer reluctantly accepted. But, he told his colleagues, the vote of no confidence was a mistake, since it threatened to continue political chaos. "I love my country too much to want those who made this mistake to be compelled to bear its full consequences. At this moment this would be too dangerous from a national as well as an international point of view...