Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rubber-stamp totalitarian fashion, the Parliament of Nazi-dominated Republic of Slovakia last week unanimously elected Premier Jozef Tiso, a Catholic priest, to become President of Slovakia. Dr. Tiso was kicked upstairs to a post of greater dignity, less power, because the Nazis have begun to consider him "untrustworthy." Simultaneously Minister of Interior Béla Tuka was promoted Premier amid rumors that he will soon be replaced by an even more pliant Nazi tool...
Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationals swept to power in 1936, after 39 years of Liberal rule in Quebec, on the strength of some high-sounding oratory against trusts and political graft. But he found promises when out of office easier to make than laws when in. He dropped trust-busting for labor-baiting, and the law for which he is best known is his Padlock Law, allowing him to shut any building merely suspected of harboring "Communists," which term he defined broadly. He made himself ridiculous by cutting his own salary, then restoring the cut; by decreeing French...
...educated at esthetic King's College, Cambridge. At 24 he passed the competitive examinations for the Diplomatic Corps, and was assigned in turn to posts in Paris, Constantinople, Rome, Paris again, Petrograd, Madrid, Paris again, London, Brussels, Paris again, and Vienna. In 1933, the year Hitler came to power, he was appointed Ambassador in Berlin. There he spent four incredibly difficult years, so distinguished himself in crisis after crisis that the Nazis, smarting under his smartness, were glad to hear of his transfer back to Paris (as Ambassador) in February 1937. And the French were delighted...
These ships combine speed, range, armor and gun power which would make it unwise for Britain to send out anything less than a Hood, Repulse or Renown, battle cruisers which could shoot Deutschland to bits with 15-inch guns at 25,000 yards, without fear of the German's eleven-inch reply. Britain's next best bet would be heavy cruisers of the "London" class, but Deutschland could penetrate a "London's" armor at 15,000 yards, whereas "London" would have to get within 8,000 yards to use her eight-inchers effectively...
...three, running with the power of a wild buffalo and the cunning of a hounded fox, Harmon scored a touchdown. By half time he had scored another and his running mate, Paul Kromer, had crossed the goal line for a third. Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter -by this time looking as monstrous to the Blue Boys as Willie Heston had looked to the West Virginia footballers of 1904-Terrible Tommy got loose and dashed 57 yards, with tacklers diving into thin air after him, for his third touchdown...