Word: soon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms from the U. S. They will have to stand on the defensive until they can build new arsenals and airplane factories. Rebuttal: If the Allies realize that they cannot get arms from the U. S., they may be more inclined to make peace quickly, or they may be soon conquered by the Germans...
...death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like a man repairing a puncture. Half the city, said he, more quietly than any football game was ever announced, was in flames. One hospital remained. And only death awaited the defenders...
This was interpreted as a veiled warning that the Daladier Cabinet may soon outlaw the Communist Party altogether. Ever since the Hitler-Stalin pact was announced French Communist Deputies have been quietly resigning from the Party, hoping to keep their seats in the Chamber. The French equivalent of the American Federation of Labor, the C. G. T. (Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat...
Premier Calinescu had courted assassination by suddenly starting to arrest throughout the kingdom, as "plotters against the State," German sympathizers with the Rumanian Fascist Iron Guard, an old-line band of native anti-Semite terrorists organized soon after World War I, repeatedly accused by "Little Hercules" of now receiving funds from the newer German Nazis. One afternoon last week, as the Premier was being driven home to lunch, a young woman suddenly shoved a cart in front of his car, which was forced to stop with squealing brakes. At the same moment up swooped two cars from which leaped masked...
...Christian religion. Why, asked incredulous natives, did God scorn polygamy when "only poor men have one wife, and God does not like poor men." Why pray when there is no immediate bad luck! An old man, dying a few years after British occupancy, summed up for his generation: "Soon I shall die, for I have seen enough...