Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early hours of the crucial Battle of Jutland in 1916 German salvos sent one British ship after another plunging to the bottom. Admiral Sir David Beatty, striding the bridge of the battle cruiser Lion, turned on a young flag officer, Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, and remarked: "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today...
Eighteen assorted British bigwigs, men like Montagu Norman, John Masefield, Lord Derby last week sent a cream-puff plea to Adolf Hitler to keep the peace of Europe, just as Handsome Adolf was about to say what he was going to do to Europe next...
Broken communication lines, uprooted roads and rail tracks cut the area off from the rest of Chile. Not until amateur radio operators sent out terse pleas for help, did Santiago, where only slight tremors were felt, learn of the damage. At dawn a Government plane headed south to survey the stricken city. What the observers saw sent them speeding back to Santiago...
...Domei news agency-as it has more than once before-triumphantly reported that the old warlord had agreed to head their Chinese Government. Next day from Wu's spokesman came his usual denial. A crafty Japanese censor at Peiping had read a telegram General Wu had sent to friends in which he said he was ready "to overcome any difficulties to secure peace." The phrase, said the spokesman, was lifted from the wire, sent to Japan where Domei converted it into an acceptance of Japan's offer...
...which the ship's crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...