Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hillman, to protest further U.S. appeasement of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. In Congress, Senators Ball, Burton, Hill and Hatch-whose bipartisan B²H² Resolution helped put the Senate on record for international cooperation-revived their demands for a precise definition of foreign policy. Their worthy object: to tell the world in advance just what sort of postwar treaties the new senate will or will not approve, thus removing one cause of intra-Allied distrust. New York's Liberal Party, whose 329,235 Term IV votes made possible a 316,591 Roosevelt majority in the State...
Some time early last month a balloon floated silently in across Cape Flattery on Washington's rainswept northern coast. The balloon, made of shellacked, parchment-like paper and bearing the rising sun of Japan, was a sizable object (33½ ft. in diameter) but nobody saw it, apparently. Eventually a 70-ft. fuse, connected to a small incendiary bomb on the inflammable paper bag, sputtered-and went out. The balloon drifted on across the Northwest...
...Illinois' billiard-bald congressional spokesman for the Chicago Tribune for four years, explained: "We are wasting time when we expect Stalin to accept a plan of collective security. . . . Whoever heard of a dictator sharing his sovereignty?. . . Now [for] the real reason why I have been an object of attack by the President and his entire battery of New Dealers, character assassins and Communists. For many years, I have been an outspoken foe of Communism...
Opportunity. The Luftwaffe's show of strength early in the offensive had not been great enough to help Rundstedt fully achieve the first object of any decisive breakthrough: to fan out behind an enemy's lines, to destroy or seize his supplies, to keep him from moving his reserves into defensive battle, to send him into confused retreat...
...quiet, predawn hours of Dec. 7, 1941, the U.S.S. Ward, a 23-year-old, four-piper destroyer, rolling back to Pearl Harbor from a routine patrol, picked up a startling report from a minesweeper: a mysterious object, possibly a submarine, had been detected in the darkness to the west. From the skipper's cabin, Lieut. William W. Outerbridge, nervously proud of his first full command, hurried out to direct a search. Finding nothing, he gave the order to secure from general quarters, went back to sleep...