Word: questioningly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While others talk about the Ivy League cellar as they page through the latest issue of Penthouse, America's premier "sports" magazine, I have let my gut feeling do the talking instead of my head. Besides, I'd do the same thing if I were answering final exam question, right? Why should picking football games be any different...
...real estate lawyer who is the council's most vocal critic of rent control, Walsh has come under scrutiny in recent weeks for business transactions with several city officials. And while he is not being accused of illegal activity, liberal groups like the CCA have been quick to question the propriety of his business dealings...
...told in a series of place names that have become part of the language: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Anzio, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima. In retrospect, it all seems to have a kind of inevitability, and yet there lingers over each battlefield a faint question. What if rains in Poland had mired the German tanks in mud? What if the French army had then attacked? What...
...least as important and interesting as the question of what might have stopped Hitler early on is the question of whether he might have emerged victorious. First, by not going to war at all. If, instead of invading Poland, he had limited himself to threats and bullying, he might have achieved his main demands, control of Danzig and freedom of movement through the Polish Corridor. It is possible, of course, that the whole dynamic of Nazism required war, but if Hitler had been able to stop short of that, he would probably have been widely regarded...
...question in any such speculation about a partial or complete Hitler victory is whether peace would have brought any kind of stability. Could Hitler have established a continental network of satellite states under German domination, like that in Vichy France? And could such a network of satellites have lasted as long as the one created by Stalin after the war? It was partly wartime hysteria that led to the savagery of Nazi rule in the occupied lands, not only against the Jews but also against the Slavs, some of whom had originally welcomed the Wehrmacht for liberating them from Stalin...