Word: mos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violent one in Moscow, to the Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered countries of Europe it was equally simple-if Moscow falls it will be the sixteenth defeat, without one victory. For the Communists, the Marxists-for innumerable reformers...
Russia had been a good friend to China in the past few years; Russian arms had helped to keep China fighting. Chinese realized last week that their own security depended on the resistance of Russian soldiers on the bloodstained field of Mos cow as well as in the windswept valley of Siberia's Amur River. If Germany "and Japan won, between them they might force any peace they wished on China...
...Tolerant' is the wrong word. I don' know jest how to put it. Let's say Harvard is better to us than mos' colleges. I don' like that word 'tolerant...
...below 1940's 4 mos. 1941 same 4 months...
...waiting to see whether Britain could hold Suez before making a deal with Hitler in the Middle East, but it was disquieting news for the Democratic World that the British Ambassador to Russia, Sir Stafford Cripps, had information of such importance for his Government that he flew from Mos cow to Stockholm to deliver it in a neutral capital...