Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profound gloom, not from sympathy for Poles or hatred of Russia, but because Italy's precarious neutrality was threatened. Next week, asked Italians, would the Soviet Union claim Bessarabia that she lost to Rumania in World War I? Or the week after? What would Turkey do? Would she take what she had got from France and Great Britain and join Russia? Would there be an offer of peace by Germany? Or would Italy join Russia and Germany in some sudden, staggering move as explosive as the midnight announcement of the German-Russian Pact...
...such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture suitable for cellars, empty flashlights (batteries long since sold...
...with it the illusion that there had ever been a battlefront. For this was no war of occupation, but a war of quick penetration and obliteration-Blitzkrieg, lightning war. Even with no opposition, armies had never moved so fast before. Theorists had always said that only infantry could take and hold positions. But these armies had not waited for the infantry. Swift columns of tanks and armored trucks had plunged through Poland while bombs raining from the sky heralded their coming. They had sawed off communications, destroyed stores, scattered civilians, spread terror. Working sometimes 30 miles ahead of infantry...
...head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good-by to his pretty wife and flew across the corridor to take personal command of the awaited Polish campaign in his old stamping ground, East Prussia. This time he was ready and the campaign hung...
...Take It is a question the French General Staff must have been thinking about a long time. Steady artillery pounding, while useful for protecting advancing troops, probably cannot do the most important part of the job. In an advance, artillery must advance too, and artillery advances are not measured in hours but in days. Furthermore, artillery duels between open and emplaced positions have a way of going in favor of the latter...