Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lively half hour or so with every machine gun and anti-aircraft cannon in the area whanging away at them. Next day Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft men had knocked down five of the twelve British raiders. Britain announced there had been "some casualties...
...Belgian pursuit pilots, protecting their neutrality, got into a dogfight with two British bombers, forced down one, shot down another. One of the Belgian ships went down in flames after its crew had bailed out. Britain made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits...
...advance into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow of long-barreled artillery, to Germans waiting at the radio all over the Reich, to listeners in countries at war with Germany or neutral, Adolf Hitler's second in command came bearing tidings of victory, offers of peace, warnings of struggle, and bad news...
From transatlantic planes and ships white faces last week peered out fearfully at grey, rain-lashed waters that already cradled 18 torpedoed ships, some 200 corpses. To escape that fate Britain's proudest ocean queens dressed like drabs in grey. In the second week of World...
Into the main station of Geneva, Switzerland one night in February 1939 crawled a train of 22 freight cars. Atop every second car sat a machine-gun crew, and as the train stopped, three French soldiers with fixed bayonets jumped from each car. The art treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver...