Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iron gates and demanded to be admitted "in the name of the Cheka." Trotsky's guards refused to open the gates; the men from the Cheka blew them up. Inside the grounds, however, they were confronted with barbed wire entanglements and a chain of concrete "pill boxes." Fire was opened, two Cheka men dropped dead; the remainder took cover; communications were cut. Meanwhile, one of Trotsky's soldiers had climbed the wall and summoned a detachment of the Red Army, upon whose approach the Chekaists fled back to Moscow. M. Dzerjinsky disavowed responsibility for the attempt, stating that...
...part, however, is devoted to a vigorous defence of the author's character, which has been much maligned by the French for weakness in dealing with treachery behind the lines. He terms all such niaiserie "legends" and proves that sedition in the Army had been cured by his pill before Clémenceau came on the scene. Following up the attack, he says that it was he and not Clémenceau who ordered the arrest of the most notorious traitors, notably Bolo Pasha...
...Prescribing a pill to cure an earthquake...
...definitely "fell through." Premier Poincaré suggested another conference to consider the question of how Germany can pay, but this was unacceptable to the other Allied Powers and to the U. S. Sir John Bradbury, British representative on the Reparations Commission, thought it was like "prescribing a pill to cure an earthquake...
...weaken just a little" is undoubtedly one of the pernicious phrases which indicate the nation-wide slump in morals, the fearful after-math of the War. It wormed its way in to the unsuspicious midst of the Lampoon and the latter, suddenly becoming aware of this monster in a pill-box, has cast it forth with just indignation. The president in his statement certainly makes the spot on the Lampoon's scutcheon larger than it really is. To say that it had "maintained a fairly clean standard of humor, but that frequently there had been noticeable deviations" is almost equivalent...