Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break in Russo-German relations after the collapse of the Reinsurance treaty and today it follows the alienation of Russia by the acts of the Hitler government against Communism. Then Russia desired support in the Balkans; now she wants the assurance that her European frontier will be safe from attack in the event of a war with Japan. In 1890, however, the treaty was directed primarily at Germany. This, I do not believe to be the case with the present treaty. France intends it more as a gesture than anything else for in the event of a war with...
...Buenos Aires so far as correspondents were concerned, when Argentine rebels shot up several rural areas and President Justo, after placing the entire nation under a "state of siege" clapped on all news the tightest censorship in years. Private cables assured the State Department that its chief was safe, proceeding with Mrs. Hull to Chile where he will sail home up the west coast of South America (he sailed down the east coast). According to President Justo, who had Argentine news decidedly all his own way, the series of rebellions was "crushed." It was started, he charged, by friends...
Each New Year's Day, on advice of the Emperor's various Premiers, His Majesty rewards subjects of their choosing with peerages, baronetcies, knighthoods, stars, assorted ribbons. Wherever these are in brisk demand the Crown is safe enough. In 1919 Canada swung under the influence of her sturdy farmers and Liberals who scarcely love a lord. Their leader and longtime Premier, coarse & hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King...
...Matto Grosso insects, the dangers from wild beasts and sunstroke (he says he never wore a hat in the sun). He and his two companions waded all one day among shoals of the dreaded piranhas (little man-eating fish), though he admits it might not have been so safe if one of them had had an open cut on his body. The attitude of the whole anti-Pingle faction was one of defensive parody: "If Indians approached us, we referred to them as the Oncoming Savages. We never said, 'Was that a shot?' but always 'Was that...
...waged for it. The reason for its continuance is to be found, I think, in the vague rumors that seep out of both countries about popular discontent with the governments. Obviously, if the rabble are occupied in the jingoistic activities that accompany a war, their rulers will feel relatively safe. Consequently, the Chaco is an ideal place to wage such a war, for defeat and loss of such a God-forsaken region can have no very serious results for either country...