Word: surer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irresponsible fanatics in this province who speak with contempt of the British achievements," warned Vanier, "are rendering a dreadful disservice to their compatriots. There is no surer way of drawing on the head of this province the hatred and violence of the other eight [English-speaking provinces]. Such men will bear a terrible responsibility if they succeed in loosing this flood which might engulf...
...moral saws and liberalistic satire. The Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty their slop pots over him (Poll cheerfully reports himself as clown, coward, butt and skunk...
...surer than ever, although we may still have a few hours of darkness ahead, there will be dawn and victory...
Personnel Department B's special function was "to comb the world for potential 'Quislings.' " Goebbels, with his fat dossiers on the vulnerabilities of all foreign notables, believed that treason was a surer method than revolution. In Belgium, for instance, Rosenberg's Degrelle movement failed; but Personnel Department B obtained the services of Henri de Man, with his influence over Leopold; and Lieut. Dombret of the Belgian General Staff sold Germany Belgium's secret plans for defense long before the war broke out. Agents of the Department-B type also got such unbribable...
...surer when in Marseille the conquered French, hearing of Yugoslavia's defiance, gathered the flowers in their gardens and took them down to the Cannebiere. The police guessed what was up, hustled them off the street. But they hopped on the streetcars. The motormen drove very slowly so that the people were able to heap their flowers on the spot where Alexander of Yugoslavia was murdered...