Word: swivet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists were in a swivet. Earl Browder, the guy they had booted off their top pedestal, was staying longer & longer in Moscow, hobnobbing with Soviet bigwigs. What was he up to? What was going...
...those feverish sessions. That something could only have been one thing: whether or not to grant Germany troop transit through Bulgaria or at least use of air bases in Bulgaria, so that the big end of the Rome-Berlin Axis could get the little end out of its Grecian swivet. The Bulgars' decision might make no immediate difference whatsoever: the Germans could undoubtedly penetrate Bulgaria whether the Bulgars wished it or not. But the ramifications of the decision might have heavy bearing on the outcome of the whole war. On the weary spine of Boris III, who never wanted...