Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Viceroy's voice in the Indian Government is more powerful than the votes of all legislators put together, his statement committed the vast subcontinent to war. This fact was appreciated by all, but from the Indians present came no sign of enthusiasm. It was only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly...
...Viceroy can declare war, but to put India's resources and men back of Britain he must have the support of the emaciated Mahatma M. K. Gandhi who holds no office but whose word is nevertheless virtual law to millions of potentially troublesome Hindus. In the last war India sent some 1,338,620 men to battle areas, all paid for out of the Indian Treasury, not to mention the wealth and materials that poured toward London. By last week some detachments of Indian troops had been sent already to Malaya and Egypt at no expense to the British...
...naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
...three-funneled Emden put to sea. A few weeks later a cruiser flying a British flag and carrying four funnels (one of them was made of deck runners), easily mistakable for the British Yarmouth, showed up in the Indian Ocean. The counterfeiting Emden took as her first prize a Greek, loaded to the Plimsoll with coal for British ports. The Emden did not sink her but kept her by as a bunker ship to be crowded with captured crews and finally sent to Germany. A fantastic series of sinkings, captures, cripplings began. What made them particularly fantastic was the gallantry...
...Admiral Scheer. Chief substantiating circumstance was the presence of an airplane. But a cruiser might have launched it. Fishiest point of all was the 25 shots she was said to have fired. One shot from the Admiral Scheer's secondary battery of 5.9-inch guns could have put a hole as big as a room in the Clement; and one from her 11-inchers a hole as big as a house...