Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unspeakable Weapons. Tucked elsewhere into the Führer's long and heated speech were his old claims that Poland started World War II incited by the Allies; that France was willing at the last moment to keep peace on terms proposed by Italy but was rushed by Britain into war; that the whole Danzig question was an agony to A. Hitler personally ("What keen suffering I underwent in these years only few can imagine"); that Poles have invented a new atrocity ("Worst of all the Polish Government quite openly admitted on its own radio that parachuting German fliers...
...accused by "Little Hercules" of now receiving funds from the newer German Nazis. One afternoon last week, as the Premier was being driven home to lunch, a young woman suddenly shoved a cart in front of his car, which was forced to stop with squealing brakes. At the same moment up swooped two cars from which leaped masked gunmen. They rapidly blazed away at Little Hercules. His bodyguard went down under the fusillade, his chauffeur collapsed, and the Rumanian Premier toppled forward riddled with bullets...
Good Appetites. The best that could be said for such wholesale butchery was that King and Generals not only feared they would be assassinated themselves at any moment, but faced last week the armies of Soviet Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary, all mobilized along their frontiers with Rumania. Each of these States lost huge slices of territory to Rumania by the peace treaties which wound up World War I, and each was all set to take advantage of any collapse at Bucharest...
...facts to pose a problem: How can democracy prevent such tragic waste? That fundamental problem is certain to be posed again & again until it is permanently solved. But the report of the committee was badly timed for getting Americans to face their problem now. It came at the very moment when a war boom threatened to abolish unemployment until peace brings the next depression...
...life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...