Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insolent." The House roared with cheers for the Prime Minister. The British press soon burst out with a chorus of approval, pointing out that if the door to negotiations had been left slightly ajar, the opening was much too small for Führer Hitler, with his pride and his conquests, to slip in. The ordinary Briton applauded and at the same time scanned the skies for the German bombers that the Nazis had threatened to send over when the war began in earnest...
That night in Berlin the Führer sat down in his great Chancellery and for three hours studied, word by word, the Prime Minister's speech. After that he called a conference of his most trusted henchmen and his highest ranking Generals. The Berlin blackout was ordered deepened, with arrests threatened for the smallest infraction. Berlin also halfway expected the bombers. But there was still some talking to be done. Emerging from Herr Hitler's study long after midnight was a polished, suave, smooth-faced man who for years has been one of the Führer...
Speaking for the Führer, he said that the Chamberlain reply was "insolent" and "stupid." It was "totally devoid of vision" or "comprehension of the world situation." The Prime Minister's failure to grasp the "outstretched hand" of the Führer meant that the British wanted to annihilate the German nation. "Let's see who will be annihilated," snapped Press Chief Dietrich...
...David Lloyd George, 76-year-old "Welsh wizard" who directed most of Britain's last war from Whitehall, listened to the Prime Minister's answer to Führer Hitler, then summoned his Council of Action for Peace to a closed meeting. After a 40-minute speech by Mr. Lloyd George the Council found the Prime Minister's statement "quite inadequate," called upon the Government to draw up a fuller statement of Britain's war aims...
Just before he left for his vacation, Buzz auctioned 1,000-oddhead of cattle, shipped in from ranges in seven neighboring States, to "feeders" who prime the beef over the winter for choosy eastern markets. "Boy, oh boy, oh boy, lookut that pretty li'l heifer," Buzz urged grizzled buyers in his rough-hewn auction pit, "right offa the juicy meadas. Wottami bid, wottami bid for this pretty li'l heifer? Who'll start it 25, 25, 25. . . ." They bid up to $97 a head; Buzz got $57,000 for the lot; the folks headed home...