Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain did and was ready with her support...
...first viceregal visit. Later on he let it be known that Führer Hitler's camp was opposite his own and that he was a "sworn enemy of brute force." The Viceroy invited him back again, and then again, until last week His Excellency and the Mahatma saw each other for the third time in less than a month. Meanwhile, Lord Linlithgow busied himself with talks with other Indian leaders-princes, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs...
Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed-a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks...
...require courage to stand there exposed to danger from those who hated him? No, it did not. Not one Pole saw Herr Hitler; Herr Hitler saw not one Pole. Troops with bayonets kept every native at least a block from the Victor, and previously police had scoured houses along his route for "suspicious elements...
...never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...