Word: moment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ToPoland's President Ignacy Moscicki, Franklin Roosevelt telegraphed that he was "deeply shocked" by German bombings, for the moment withheld reply to Poland's suggestion that the U. S. extend its arms embargo to aggressive Soviet Russia...
...Poland did not shake Britain out of her aim. Although Lord Beaverbrook shrieked "Murder!" in the Evening Standard, the official communique made it clear that Britain would not declare war on Russia. Said a Government declaration: "This attack [the Russian invasion of Poland] made upon their ally, at a moment when she is prostrated in the face of overwhelming forces brought against her by Germany, cannot ... be justified by the argument put forward by the Soviet Government. The full implication of these events is not yet apparent. ..." A Government spokesman made it clearer: "His Majesty's Government...
...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
...upshot may well have to be an autobiography culminating in the destruction by brimstone of the 20th Century-Fox studios. Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start a fire that burns as brightly as did the conflagration in In Old Chicago. Most cinemaddicts will wonder why, having carried...
...news-front too it looked as if the Germans, at least for the moment, had outmaneuvered France and Britain. Warned by the failure of their tactics in the last war, this time the Germans were putting all their resources at the disposal of news-writers, while the Allied propaganda machine was at a standstill, tangled in the barbed wire of official secrecy and confusion...