Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finland Station in Leningrad is the place where Lenin got off the train on the night of April 3, 1917, to take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of the depot, he stood looking uncomfortable while newly elevated bigwigs welcomed him with speeches and with a bouquet that he handled as gingerly as if it had been a bomb. The phrase "to the Finland Station" has a symbolic meaning, implies something like a rendezvous with destiny...
Last week Russia arrived again at the Finland Station, but this time it was really Finland and the trains were running West. As Russia's westward expansion hit the border of the little Baltic country and she presented her demands to Finland's envoy to Moscow, she also presented President Roosevelt with a major problem in statecraft. It forced on him what correspondents did not hesitate to call "the most delicate and momentous" decision of his career...
...many Germans noticed a two-line announcement in their papers one day last week that the Berlin radio station, which usually starts broadcasting at 6 a. m., would not be on the air until 12:30 that day. No reason was given, and under Nazi rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead...
...many Berliners heard the relatively feeble Freedom Station, but in a delirium of joy they promptly spread the news by word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
...phone by hundreds of people. Apparently no one woke up to the fact that the Reich's war-will was being rapidly undermined. Finally, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop rushed to the Führer. It was not until 12:30, the hour when the Berlin station had been scheduled to go back on the air anyhow, that an official denial was broadcast from the Reich Chancellery itself-that is, from Adolf Hitler's own headquarters, which never before had stooped to deny a public rumor...