Word: mocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WORDS THAT WON THE WAR-James R. Mock & Cedric Larson-Princeton...
Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
Byron, says Author Cecil, was no true romantic. He "had a robust Eighteenth-Century mocking kind of outlook." When she saw him, Caroline Lamb wrote: "Bad, mad and dangerous to know." A week later she wrote: "That beautiful pale face will be my fate." They went through a curious mock marriage, exchanged vows, signed a book as Byron and Caroline Byron. Byron's confidante in this and later affairs was William Lamb's mother, Lady Melbourne, whom he described as "the best friend I ever...
...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...
Italy. The mock battle ended in a great victory. The 50,000 troops reviewed at Turin were rhapsodized as "the steel vanguard of a nation in arms which intends to pluck victory in the light...