Word: slipperyness
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The political climate of the British Isles in 1933 was humidly antiwar. Britons did not want war. Britons did not believe there was going to be any war. They put their faith in the League of Nations and collective security. Labor was in no mood to forgo any of its...
That smart and slippery politician, King Carol II of Rumania, last week lost no time in coming to terms with continental Europe's new master. No sooner had France asked for peace than Carol, in a sweeping decree, made Rumania a totalitarian State. A single new Party of the...
Before the summer is over, track fans expect Blozis to smash Torrance's world's outdoor mark for 16 lb. (57 ft. 1 in.) as well. Six weeks ago, in the Penn Relay Carnival, he started out creditably with a 55 ft. 5⅜ in. toss that broke...
Last week the Allies' Northwestern Expeditionary Force (its newly announced official name) tried to scramble aboard Norway by way of the slushy, slippery, narrow, air-vulnerable ports left to them by the Germans above and below Trondheim. Its main effort was to get ashore and stake first military claim...
"Major Quisling," said the London Times last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British...