Word: overrun
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...opening of each new international bridge, call attention to the 3,897 miles of U. S. Canadian frontier that have no fortifications whatsoever. New U. S.-Canadian relations involve staggering possibilities: that the seat of the British Empire might be moved to Ottawa if Britain should be overrun, that the British fleet might be forced to seek bases in Canadian ports, that Nazi Germany might claim Canada if she won-in which case unfortified bridges and boundaries would comfort neither U. S. citizens nor Canadians. Smooth Mr. Moffat raised no such grim prospects. Quizzed over the phone by a Toronto...
...sleepless night. For 14 days he had watched terror-stricken people fleeing across the fertile fields and meadows of North Flanders. For 14 nights he had seen the moonlit May sky turn murky yellow from the glow of burning villages. Four-fifths of his country had been devastated and overrun; how many of his countrymen had been slaughtered he did not know. As Commander in Chief of the Belgian Army holding the Allied left flank, he had seen it beaten back with frightful losses toward the English Channel. On this night the Germans were at the gates of Bruges. Leopold...
Churchill promised that Britain will fight on--even, if the Nazis overrun the British Isles, Britain will fight, he said "until the New World comes to the rescue...
...blow not only to the Cambridge kids but also to better relations between college undergraduates and Cambridge citizens. Since colonial days a seldom crossed no-man's-land of mutual misunderstanding has separated City and College. To the Cambridge citizen, Harvard seems a red-bricked baronial estate, overrun with bow-tied plutocratic playboys. To the student, Cambridge is a necessary evil of place-where, filled with strangers in the street. Mythologies like these can be liquidated. A town-gown playground project...
...extraordinarily prescient book called Rats in the Larder, written in 1938 -mostly before the Munich Agreement had made every European journalist a Cassandra-TIME'S Copenhagen Correspondent Joachim Joesten gave two reasons why Germany was certain to overrun Denmark early in the next war. Last week, which found Correspondent Joesten a fugitive in Sweden, his prediction and his reasons were upheld almost word for dire word. One of the reasons was strategic (see p. 19). The other was economic: Denmark is the larder of hungry Europe...