Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then they played their defense trump: the Allies had been broadcasting appeals to civilians to help German soldiers desert; Hogen and Packbier were only following General Eisenhower's instructions; the three soldiers were trying to desert from the Wehrmacht...
Argentina last week played an ace. But perhaps not a trump...
...Spirit. Tojo spoke not in desperation but from knowledge of his people, their obedience, credulity, imperturbability in the face of hardship. Japan's soldiers, peasants and factory workers expect to win the war; their trump is Yamato Damashii, the "unquenchable spiritual force" of the Japanese people which must match the earthier power of the U.S.'s bigger guns, faster planes, heavier ships. They know Japan has conquered a rich empire, believe that the peoples of East Asia are united against the Western powers. Few of them seriously doubt the extravagant claims of continued victories, because they have...
...personally lugged from New York to Britain and back had been picked up and carried for him. He had been driven to the hotel, registered and roomed like a guest. He had heard someone say that there would be no formations, that the first bugler who sounded his trump would be exiled...
Postwar Insurance. Probably the most powerful trump card the Allies can play is the prospect of furnishing postwar influence for Turkey against Soviet Russia. Despite the "series of most advanced treaties" which Saracoglu announced as having consolidated the Turkish rapprochement with Russia, Russian postwar aims remain Turkey's greatest fear. Control of the Dardanelles, Russia's only outlet to the southern waterways, has been a sore point between the two nations for decades; Turkey's control of it today hinges on the Montreux Convention...