Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike fortnight ago, when he was all tensity and action, last week his tone was quiet, jovial, as if to let the U. S. people in their own good time draw their own inferences from the fact of his proclaimed national emergency, the larger fact of war on the loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle...
...break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches of the Maginot Line and Westwall, facing each other across the Rhine from Lauterbourg south to the Swiss border, lay quiet except for occasional, experimental artillery exchanges. Soldiers of both armies were reported bathing on their respective sides of the river, in full view of each other. Signs on the German side said: "We have orders not to fire on you until you fire...
...toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce the pressure of the French...
After a quick crossing made none the less tense because everything had been so quiet, the Queen Mary docked in Manhattan day after Great Britain declared war. Part of the way she had been convoyed by British men-of-war. All the way her ports and windows had remained blackened, her outgoing radio silent. Aboard were $44,000,000 in gold, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan...
Other novels, with somewhat similar background, have been written by Russian exiles. Not one has become popular. (All the business went to such characteristic Soviet sagas as Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Gorky's Bystander...