Word: perils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have brought you: an entente which will be approved by 90% of the German nation, the nine-tenths who follow me. I pray you note this: There are in the life of peoples decisive occasions. France can today, if it wishes, put an end forever to the 'German Peril' which your children from generation to generation have learned to fear. You can remove this formidable mortgage which weighs on the history of France. This chance is now given to you. If you don't seize it, think of your responsibilities before your children. You have before...
...more refined, restrained, grammatical moods. Said he: "In the words of Lincoln, 'We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow his memory, but we can be dedicated, we can be consecrated to our duty to our country in this time of stress and peril and emulate his example, and not run wild on a dream that the Government owes us a living...
...have tried to apply Sanctions without having in the first place organized them. Hence their inefficiency and their danger. . . . Britain is responsible for the persistent lack of organization of Sanctions. ... It is our right also to recognize that Britain's brusque reversal constitutes an injustice for Italy, a peril for Peace...
SAMUELS PEPYS : THE YEARS of PERIL -Arthur Bryant-Macmillan...
...other hand, he might have been buried forever in a respectable obscurity. With a laudable desire to play down Pepys's human frailty, to play up his first-rate abilities. Author Bryant is trying to rehabilitate Pepys as a serious character. Samuel Pepys: The Years of Peril is the second volume of what is to.be a biographical trilogy, and the last word on Pepys...