Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Athénée Palace swarm night & day with as conniving a group of spies, agents, buyers, diplomats, eavesdropping newsmen as ever inhabited a Grand Hotel. On the twisting Calea Victoriei-less than 20 years ago a thoroughfare distinguished for its dust in summer and its mud in winter-intriguing Frenchmen rub shoulders with scheming Germans, plotting Britons encounter counterplotting Russians...
...Rain, sleet, snow fell on the Western Front. Rivers rose two feet higher. Mud deepened. Despite continued German troop concentrations and systematic artillery fire, consensus of military observers was increasingly against any Big Push by land this winter...
While British sailors died at sea and British soldiers idled in French mud, British orators fought for their country on the mental fronts of World...
...belief that submarines are able to stay submerged only so long as they maintain active forward motion with motors running. And yet . . . you state that the "usual maneuver is to sit on bottom, motors off." By this do you mean that such submarines are stuck fast in the mud of the bottom or that submersion with motors off is possible regardless of the circumstances...
...been waiting on events to turn in his favour and had been making his preparations to seize the opportunity, when it was offered to him. The Russian Pact appeared to give him the advantage which he was seeking and thereafter there was no time to lose, if mud was not to be added to Poland's allies...