Word: unleashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing Hitler as "that monster apparition" and "that evil man over there," Churchill challenged the German Chancellor to unleash the merciless blows which the Nazis have been threatening...
Claude Pepper, 38, the drawling, slick-haired junior Senator from Florida, had his last word drowned in thunderous cheers when he keynoted for a "third term for Roosevelt's ideals." Josh Lee, the junior Senator from Oklahoma, caused pandemonium by yelling: "Now is the time to unleash the devil dogs of democracy and set them baying on the trail of the Wolf of Wall Street! America, now is the time to unsheathe the sword of human rights! Now is the time to raise the banner of Roosevelt...
...branch of peace that Neville Chamberlain said he had brought back from Munich was little more than two months old last week and had already begun to lose its foliage. In fact, Mr. Chamberlain was clutching not much more than a bare stick as he watched the "appeased" Germans unleash their full brutality against the Jews and agitate revolution in Rumania (see p. 15), as he watched the Rumanians shoot and jail their own Nazis, as he watched two wars still going on while French and Italians were worried about another...
...Adolf Hitler had wanted to surpass this Göring speech, his own final declaration closing the Congress this week would have had to take Germany from words to action, and in Europe the masses had feared that with this speech the Führer might unleash war. However, a symphony rarely ends by blowing all the biggest horns, nor has Adolf Hitler ever up to now rattled to give notice before one of his lightning strikes, such as seizing Austria. His words this week simply advanced the German psychological offensive to a new stage...
...reuniting the largest and most ancient country in the world in the face of common danger; for learning perforce to unleash bombs from nowhere, mines from nowhere, planes from nowhere in a land where every gesture is a tradition; for advancing national progress and a New Life in spite of centuries of worship and changelessness, all credit belongs to the Couple of the Year, China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mei-ling Chiang...