Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bugs From A Log. Every time Judge Ferguson got a new witness to talk, it was like turning up a rotten log: the bugs swarmed out and he had to work fast before they got away. He took witnesses to his office building through the garage, whisked them upstairs unseen. He kept them secluded in hideouts, surrounded by dictographs and investigators...
...raid was small but it was significant. Boulogne, which in 1803-05 was to be a jumping-off spot for Napoleon's invasion of England, bristles with protective armament. If a handful of men could thus dare the Nazi guns, perhaps something was rotten in all Hitler's coastal defenses. Certainly the defenses of Boulogne were not raid-proof. Shortly after the raid, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, lately named as commander of all German forces in western Europe, ordered the arrest of several Nazis, jailed 150 Frenchmen suspected of having given assistance to the British...
...Author Tabouis realizes that those bad times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...London reported that Soviet Russia, headlong in its winter offensive, had heightened its demands for a second front against the Nazis in Europe. Norway, rotten under conquest, strategically placed for sustained pressure on the Nazis, lay within naval and military reach of Britain. R.A.F. bombers, striking at Paris suburbs (see p. 23), raised the hope that perhaps in Germany's Occupied France the British might find an effective air front; Canada's No. 1 soldier hinted that they might even return in force to the French coast, feel for soft spots, press on toward another western front...
When Winston Churchill finished, his critics reflected that he had given no convincing answer to charges that Britain's war councils, both productive and military, are rotten with dead wood and cluttered with red tape, that production could be 40% greater. Although he was doubtless right that Britain had been unable to reinforce Malaya, he did not explain away the fact that the British high command had mistakenly believed that Malaya could successfully repel any attack. His skillful apologies for the military past were little assurance for the future...