Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Determined to have their gum and bubble it too, the Japanese warned the Admiral to look for trouble. Warned Tokyo's Japan Times and Advertiser: "Japan will not hesitate for a moment to resort to force to stamp out De Gaullists in the Pacific...
...President's Territory. When Mexico broke off relations with Japan, Italy and Germany last month, President Manuel Avila Camacho appointed ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas commander in chief in the Pacific area. The General set up his headquarters at Ensenada, onetime resort of jaded Hollywood playboys in Baja California...
Busiest museum director in the U.S. last week was smiling, 220-lb. Paul Parker, who runs the trim, modern Fine Art Center Museum in the small (pop. 37,000) Rocky Mountain resort of Colorado Springs. Priceless masterpieces from famous museums all over the U.S. were arriving at his back door by the truckload. Spouting South Dakota cuss words at a crew of workmen, Director Parker carefully unloaded the valuable arrivals, stored them away in a basement maze of gigantic vertical steel racks. By last week the number of arrivals, including top-flight Cézannes, Daumiers, Goyas and Van Dycks...
...implication he berated Germany's stooges in the Paris press: "It is my duty to call deserters all who in the press as on the radio, abroad and in France, resort to abject tasks. ..." To this the stooges replied with charges that Vichy was abandoning "collaboration while Paris is upholding it," that Marshal Petain had been listening too respectfully to U.S. Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy...
...Mexico, bulky Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and consul general, celebrated the New Year with friends at the resort town of Cuernavaca. As the group drank up to "Viva Roosevelt" and "Viva Camacho," ten heel-clicking Germans Heil-Hitlered, split open Neruda's head with a blackjack. Next day five Mexican politicos formally offered to duel with the Nazis...