Word: stab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State's coasts. When, in 1938, old Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and young Dominions Secretary Malcolm MacDonald relinquished Britain's rights in these bases, even for wartime, Winston Churchill spoke hotly and prophetically. "The dark forces of the Irish underworld," he barked, "already tried to stab Britain in the back during the World War and [Prime Minister Eamon] de Valera would not be able to control them if he assumed a friendly attitude toward Britain...
...That stab in the back at Willkie was remindful of Mussolini. . . . Shame! Shame...
...First Stab at Trondheim. The narrow, rutted roads were knee-deep in late-April slush. German bombers and attack ships roared low over the pinetops. From southeast of Steinkjer, smashing echoes rolled into the mountains from the guns of German destroyers and a pocket battleship (probably the Liitzow) bottled up in Beitstad Fjord, as the Germans moved them up to support their land forces...
...eagerly expecting the news that the British and their Allies have crushed Hitrar and his guilty and criminal party. They accuse Hitrar of having made all wares dearer by waging an unnecessary war and by attacking smaller or weaker nations. Our water-carrier assured me that he would stab Hitrar with his djambia [dagger] if Hitrar should happen to pass this way, and would not mind if I put chains into his legs...
Second Democrat to realize that no Presidential blessing would come his way was James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and Politician Plenipotentiary to the New Deal (TIME, April 11). Third came last week, when Paul Vories McNutt, Federal Security Administrator, his back a mass of stab wounds from his New Deal friends, hurriedly got leave from his duties to take his case to the country. But Big Jim Farley was already on his way. No one (but Mr. Farley) doubts that he knows, by first name, 10,000 people all over the U. S. Mr. Farley's only doubt...