Word: quiescent
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...decade which ended in 1920 had seen a war that was to prove inconclusive. It had seen a revolution that was to lie quiescent after establishing itself in the largest country of the world. The decade which ended in 1930 was one of confusion and wasted energy-the wasted energy of gambling and gin-drinking in the U. S., of civil war in the Far East, of misdirected revolutionary effort from the U. S. S. R., of the attempt in Europe to hold resurgent peoples in check. The decade which ended this week saw the failure of that attempt...
...year opened, the rival forces sat quiescent. There had been a lull ever since the Japanese capture of Hankow in October 1938. The Japanese were waiting for Wang Ching-wei's defection from the Chungking Government and the subsequent collapse (they hoped) of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Wang fled but Chiang stayed. That meant the Japanese would have to fight some more. Their plan was to try to engulf Chungking in a giant pincer, north and south. A sudden drive, almost unresisted, took Nanchang to the South. But then the Chinese had a series of successes greater...
...Swiss notice was only the most overt indication of the fact that half of Europe wants and the other half fears that the long quiescent war may soon spread like prairie fire. Most hard-pressed neutral of Europe last week was undoubtedly Rumania. German newspapers hinted that unless Rumania forked over more oil. Nazi troops would come and get it. To this Turkish Premier Refik Saydam replied that Turkey would go to war with any country that started invading the Balkans. "While Turkey is doing all she can to prevent the war from spreading, no one can be sure that...
Front No. 5, Córdoba itself is protected by formal lines of trenches almost as strong as those at Madrid, quiescent for many weeks, and this silence extends over the high peaks of the Sierra Nevadas to the sea, where there has been no effective action since the capture of Málaga seven months ago. All this line is under control of el Caudillo Franco's most colorful subordinate, hoarse-voiced bombastic General Queipo de Llano, the "radio general...
...Committee for Industrial Organization, backed by the Wagner Act, Boss John L. Lewis proposes to extend to all unorganized industrial workers willy-nilly, was content to leave the Motor Front quiescent for seven days. But on the Steel Front one sector reached the tense pitch of martial...