Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly above the voice rose a banshee screech-air-raid alarm. The crowds shuddered, broke, ran for air-raid cellars. In Hamburg the radio loudspeakers faltered and fell silent. But in Berlin and elsewhere, the harsh Prussian voice spoke on like a trump of doom, echoing through deserted streets and beer halls...
Columbia Broadcasting System at once asked the British Admiralty to let them have this eminent prisoner for a broadcast. The Admiralty hemmed & hawed. It took Berlin only 48 hours to trump Mr. Churchill's ace. There CBS was supplied with a voice which said it belonged to Captain Herbert Schultze, commander of the U-48 which sank the Philbine. In reply to urbane Mr. Churchill this voice said: "He had apparently got my position wrong...
...decrepit Chinese who have sold out to the enemy command little affection and no respect, have no influence even with the Japanese who use them. But Puppet Cheng was shrewd, forceful, humorous; Chinese loved him, foreigners respected him, and his employers listened to his advice. Losing such a trump infuriated the Japanese. Much more so did the British refusal, on the ground of insufficient evidence, to hand over four men suspected of the murder. British Ambassador to China Sir Archibald Clark Kerr considered the case more important than the comfort of British nationals in Tientsin, and so the Japanese declared...
...simply atrophy because of competition. It can take a variety of forms: law-suits, contact with parents and prep schools, efforts to have all other student publications cease advertising, steps to make class lists and especially lists of freshmen inaccessible. All of these must be pursued. As a final trump, there is the possibility of direct pressure on the students themselves to stop tutoring in the Square...
Most Irishmen were jubilant at another of "Dev's" diplomatic victories and saw in it a trump to take the final trick in the Eire-Britain game-rule of Northern Ireland...