Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disagreeing with Playwright Shaw was Biologist Julian Huxley, who chose the London Times as his forum: "We cannot survive as a great power unless we smash Hitlerism; but if we are to prevent the growth of a new Hitlerism later, we must plan some kind of new international order." Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, who as a rule has fairly fresh ideas, wanted: 1) peace negotiations now; 2) an arrangement for "all peoples to be allowed free elections to determine their own form of government," a faithful echo of 1919 Wilsonian self-determinism...
...Pittman believed that the mere question of repeal of the arms embargo was but a minor phase of the problem of national security. But as a practical man he knew how thunderous a drum-roll his Isolationist foes could beat up over that single issue. He set himself to smash their drumheads, roll the drum himself...
Editor Mencken printed it. Weaver received $11.25. Year and a half later, Weaver published a book of verse written in the same lingo, which went through seven printings in its first year. Weaver followed this smash hit with three books of verse; but their novelty progressively dwindled, and so did their popular appeal...
...terms of her neutrality, Belgium was not mobilized when Germany struck on August 4. Within twelve days all her Liége forts fell and Kluck rushed westward, intending to smash the Belgian Army at Jette. The Belgians retreated into fortified Antwerp, where he bottled them and passed...
...began. While the King was speaking the German armies were driving to smash the Polish defensive triangle of Lwow-Lublin-Cracow before winter weather aided the Poles. While the bombers were loading, the Chancelleries were preparing their papers to place the guilt of launching the war (see p. 20). Then, the spokesmen stepped from the stage of history; the silent generals took their place...