Word: spurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of truth and justice...
...Democracies were disturbed by their failure in Norway and politically disrupted within by that failure, he struck with singleness of purpose which ignored all morality but his own, utilized all the psychological and ideological weaknesses of bis enemy. Shortage of war materials, poor crop prospects next autumn, all helped spur him now to the quick war, risking all, which he knew favored him more than a war of any length. Only by stalling Blitzkrieg into a trench-digging war, until they grew stronger, did the Allies have much chance...
...North it was a different story. Not only was Narvik soon out of German control - and the road to the vital nearby Swedish ore fields - but the railhead at Namsos on a fjord 55 miles north of Trondheim was not held. From it runs a rail spur down to Hell, near middle Norway's only landing field of military size...
From towns along that rail spur, came word of a strong Norwegian mobilization, to cooperate with the Allies should they strike for Trondheim and the main rail line south to Oslo...
Returning alone and tired to his Villa Torlonia home one evening some years ago, Benito Mussolini decided on the spur of the moment to go into a cinema. He entered and took a seat, unrecognized. Presently, his own limber face flashed on the screen. Everyone present stood up and applauded, except Il Duce. His secret enjoyment of the demonstration was interrupted by a man behind him who leaned over and whispered: "Better stand up and clap, pal. They'll arrest...