Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prague, undaunted President Eduard Benes, still "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," calmly considered high-powered demands he had received from Warsaw and from Budapest, each saying in effect "You must let us take what was ours in Czechoslovakia-or else...
...also the first to smash windows and pillage shops and homes owned by Czechs, Jews and non-Nazi Sudetens such as Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Such outrages were not typical but exceptional, according to latest dispatches. The German army entered those parts of Czechoslovakia which it is to take over progressively by October 10 (see p. 75) in the same peaceful fashion as it entered Austria, was cheered last week by civilians...
...Czechoslovak Government's official complaint at Adolf Hitler's "unbelievably coarse and vulgar [propaganda] campaign"; go on to affirm that "Hitler's demands in their present form are absolutely and unconditionally unacceptable"; then close with a declaration that "the Czechoslovak Government will be ready to take part in an international conference where Germany and Czechoslovakia, among other nations, would be represented, to find a different method of settling the Sudeten German question...
Anthony Eden, who had been expected to land heavy verbal blows on Neville Chamberlain, frowningly told the House: "Now that the world can breathe again it is the duty of everyone to take stock. A great national effort is called for to ensure that Europe will never again appear so near the abyss...
Being a kind and patient man in private life, it would take what Pegler calls a "Viennese head-feeler" to explain his acidity in print. Born in Minneapolis, he worked for the United Press in the U.S. and abroad, wrote a column of sports comment before Roy Howard brought him to the New York World-Telegram in 1933 and made the universe his beat. Pegler is a laborious writer; his brisk, integrated sentences are the result of patient rewriting. Most of his turbulent columns are composed in the seclusion of his Pound Ridge, N. Y. estate, near the haunts...