Word: plete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin. He repeated this 10 or 20 times in various phrases. He would say: 'I will fall here' or T will fall before the Chancellery' or 'I must die here in Berlin.' He reasoned that the cause was irretrievably lost, in com plete contrast to his previous attitude, which had always been: 'We will fight to the last tip of the German Reich.' "What reasons motivated his change of heart no one knows. He expressed the fact that his confidence was shaken. He had lost confidence in the Wehrmacht quite a while...
...rain-lashed east coast of Leyte, an assault convoy was assembled. Its mission: to land on Mindoro, set up airfields overlooking the South China Sea, com plete the job of bisecting the Philippines begun at Leyte...
...airmen believe that such rights should be unrestricted. They see in com plete freedom of the air a great threat to weak countries, through surprise bombing raids over well-scouted territory. But they admit no reason why the nations cannot agree upon limited rights to foreign air lines which will tie the world closer than it has ever been before in trade, and there fore in understanding...
...days later Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau told the U.S. the other half. Mr. Morgenthau corralled the Congressional leaders, laid before them a stack of indigestible truths, told them to swallow hard. That afternoon he announced com plete non-partisan agreement on a tax program increasing present taxes one-third, to raise $3,444,000,000 in new revenue. He described the tax program as possibly the largest in world history, estimated that it will produce $12,667,000,000 - two-thirds of the total estimated 1942 expenditure...
...trouble is that John Donne (com plete) is not printed in the U. S. at all, but in England. Impatiently, the Oxford Press awaited a Donne shipment, praying that, like every other Oxford Press shipment so far, this one might elude Nazi submarines and planes...