Word: thwarting
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Rome rumored that Mussolini had nipped a plot to make Ciano a Darlan. Another reported that Mussolini had dispatched elegant Crown Prince Umberto to command Italian divisions on the Russian front in order to thwart a clerical fascist peace move centering around the haggard House of Savoy...
...This war is a crime against civilization which serves no British interests. . . . There is enough room in the world for both nations and this war was only brought about to thwart Germany's position. There can no longer be a British victory and only fools think there can be an American victory...
...Sinn Feiners; in Dublin. A teacher, historian, lecturer, he was acting Sinn Fein leader during Eamon de Valera's imprisonment in "The Trouble" of 1916-21. Diehard Anglophobe and fiery money-raiser in the U.S., O'Flanagan attacked the Irish bishops for allegedly using their offices to thwart full freedom, was thrice suspended from the priesthood...
...beleaguered Europe, in blood-stained Russia, on the tank-tracked Libyan desert, above & below the earth's seas, Santa Claus was getting short shrift. Even in the U.S., his last, best hope on earth, Adolf Hitler and his hissing Japanese friends had tried to thwart him. But their attack came too late to destroy all the fruits of a U.S. Christmas. Now, more than ever, Americans were thankful for what they were about to receive. They were thankful, too, for Dumbo...
David Conroy 2L, who is writing this year's musical comedy for the Club, will finish his work before the leaves, so fears that his departure would thwart the execution of the show are alleviated. For the musical portion of the book, James Lynch '42, who contributed a few of the tunes last year, has been composing most of the songs to equal his former successes...