Word: realm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy (German) Empire." Italy was assigned to "protect and guide" the provinces of southeast France. The Basques and Catalans on both sides of the Pyrenees were united and made independent. A "Great United Kingdom of The Netherlands" encompassed Flanders and the northern French provinces. "Peace and the boundless realm of the Emperor were finally secured," wrote Poet Thomasset. Ulrich, with mighty Germany as a bulwark against the east, turned his eyes to the west, where lay "a mammon empire-America...
...last week-"that it has not the technical means for rapid and decisive counter-attack." He urgently demanded "an Army of shock troops with lightning-like speed and formidable power in artillery . . . modern tanks which will go 40 kilometres an hour in flat country." But those defenders of the realm, Blum, Daladier, Gamelin, would not listen...
...banks of the Somme last week as Britain's knights and lords fell with day laborers and farmers in the grim cavalcade of war. True to the ancient tradition that the aristocracy pays for its privileges on the day of battle, the first-born of the realm marched, as in many crises of Britain's turbulent history, to fulfill their destiny. So rapid was the depletion of the aristocracy, already thinned and impoverished by death and death taxes in World War I, that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood decreed that for the duration death...
Said Columnist David Lawrence, edging out on a limb: "Notwithstanding the opposition of the Republican politicians, the nomination of Wendell Willkie, which was believed impossible a few weeks ago, is decidedly within the realm of a possibility today...
...stake, they would never have weakened Christian Germany (Austria) after the War, nor allowed pagan Prussia again to become strong. He foresaw that Naziism and Bolshevism would get together. "If or when the New Germany moves one inch towards infringing on the present ancient frontiers of the Polish realm-then I shall know that I was right...