Word: tremely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Runciman report, "Sudeten extremists" such as Führer Henlein brashly refused to go to Prague to discuss Plan No. 4, and also Henlein's additional demands, instead urged "ex-treme unconstitutional action"-i. e., Sudeten secession-so that by September 13 "the Reich had become the dominant factor in the situation; the dispute was no longer an internal one. It was not part of my function to attempt mediation between Czechoslovakia and Germany...
...clear case of self defense," said Maitre Louis Gassin, her principal attorney. "The fact that my client bought two months ago the revolver with which she shot and killed her husband does not indi- cate premeditation. . . . She simply purchased the weapon for use in case of ex-treme emergency to defend her life. How prudent this action...
...alarming. Compared with other depression-years, the wonder was not that two houses had failed within the month but that many more firms had not failed months ago. Even such an arch-conservative as the New "York Times' Alexander Dana Noyes berated Wall Street for a pessimism as ex-treme as its fantastic optimism of last year. And, in many a newspaper and business paper, financial leaders were berated for an absence of leadership as notable in days of gloom as in bygone days of merrymaking. Consensus of opinion was, in short, that Wall Street had ceased to be either...
...what Senator Johnson and his followers most wanted from the majority. Republican Leader Watson had in his desk a petition signed by 35 Senators to invoke cloture and thus kill the filibuster. But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure. The mere threat served him better...