Word: tinder
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Perhaps Benito Mussolini was sincere in his guarantees to the small States. But sincerity sometimes relaxes. Adolf Hitler was thought to have been sincere when he swore the Sudetenland was his last territorial desire in Europe. The nations of the world last week were stuffed with tinder. By entering the war as Germany's first ally, Benito Mussolini struck a fateful match. Whatever the immediate result of II Duce's participation, the long-range danger was that no man knew how far the fires of war would spread...
This week, Nazi Germany launched her spring offensive. Like a running torch applied to tinder it set northern Europe afire...
...Secretary MacDonald spoke for 80 minutes, and veterans of the House declared that he gave a bang-up Parliamentary performance. He pointed out that it was the impoverished Arab working class who suffered when wealthy Arab landlords sold out to Jews. These ousted Arab workers, he warned, made ideal tinder for an uprising...
BOSTON--Fires raged unchecked through hurricane-tangled forests strewn with tinder-like debris, in three scattered New England sectors tonight...
...fires that are likely to result from the accumulation of these huge piles of tinder will be of a spectacular variety which has never been seen in this part of the country, usually being confined to the great timber stands of the West coast, he said. They will be of the type known as "crown fires" where the flames shoot to a height of 500 feet, creating a mighty draught which throws burning brands half a mile ahead of the main blaze and makes it absolutely uncontrollable...