Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marched before") would release 70 divisions for the Western Front. At the moment Germany's coal ran short-"and I might say at that very exact moment"-the seizure of Polish mines* relieved the strain. The failure of Britain to attack meant "their desire to fight does not seem too great." Reassuring was the failure of Britain to bomb Berlin. Then there was the hope that Britain and France could be divided-"England will fight to the last Frenchmen-remember that, you Frenchmen...
Hard-headed Nazis scarcely expected Britain and France to accept peace offers, hoped rather to maneuver into a position where they would seem, both in German and in neutral eyes, guilty of prolonging war. The first response from London was disquieting. The War Cabinet met, decided: 1) to base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests...
...even when the holes where the bullet came in and 'went out are in a straight line. A sharp-nosed bullet is easily deflected by ribs or tough muscles. A surgeon must explore the internal track of all penetrating bullets, no matter how tiny the entering wounds may seem. If he meets an abdominal wound, for instance, he must first cut off all jagged infected surface tissue. Without damaging important nerves, veins, arteries, he must then pull out the intestines "foot by foot," looking for bullet perforations, and stitching them up. Although he may find as many as eight...
...tropical vegetation where Lady Cromer's maid had once asked: "How long, my Lady, must we tarry in this shrubbery?" At Khartoum, Churchill's valet died. Writes Marsh: "I was grateful to him [Churchill] for his confidence in my right feeling when he told me that though it might seem an odd thing to say, he knew I should understand him if he owned that he would have minded less if it had been...
...Marsh the literary great seem to generate no spark. Strangely flat are his reminiscences of Anatole France, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and A. E. Housman to whom Marsh credits this Regents Board bettering of Wordsworth: First Don: 0 cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice...