Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakian border, Field Marshal Hermann Göring had reportedly massed 200,000 men; from Salzburg, military highways were being feverishly constructed, and the railway to Eisenstein on the Czech frontier was being double-tracked. General Göring bragged at Nürnberg that private industry on the Rhine was crippled, so heavily had he drafted workers to rush completion of the Siegfried line. Back from the borders, the Third Reich was an armed camp. Conscripts due for discharge this week were indefinitely retained in the army. With the calling of the new class, 1,500,000 men were...
...trustbusting, likened business competition without effective anti-trust enforcement to a prizefight without a referee. Said he: "In such a contest the man who puts on brass knuckles will win. This situation will not be solved by hanging mottoes of fair play on the four posts of the ring. . . . We should not blame great industrial organizers. In a hard-played game, an aggressive team will go as far as the imposition of penalties permits, or else it will lose to the team which does. . . . Today there are laws going in all sorts of directions which need to be reconciled...
...commit himself and saying he must first consult Berlin; 2) that unless Britain again issued a firm warning to Germany, Lord Runciman might not be able to keep the situation in hand. In Central Europe, chancelleries buzzed with a story that German Field Marshall Hermann Wilhelm Göring had just told foreign diplomat: "I have definite information that in case the German Army marches into Czechoslovakia the British will not lift a finger...
Next day Hitler and Horthy rolled by special trains across Germany to Berlin, where they were welcomed on a gayly decorated station platform by No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The colossal German military display which followed was even bigger than that staged last year for Premier Mussolini. In the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg 1,100 armored cars and tanks, 318 motorcycles, 300 heavy guns, 750 cavalrymen, 61,000 infantrymen passed before Regent Horthy in just over two hours' time...
...that word in large black letters on a sheet of foolscap; then solemnly apply a match to the paper. . . . Now let us bray the ashes in a mortar with a goose-feather pen, and declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises is "feminist." Last week, out of deference to her rhetoric, critics refrained from using...