Word: victorye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Harvard-Yale track squad did not perform quite up to expectations in their invasion across the seas, and the result was a decisive 9 to 3 victory for their British consins from Oxford and Cambridge.
Into a German munitions factory last week walked Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, most popular (after Hitler) and most portly of Nazis. On the eighth day of Germany's advance into Poland, he had a great job to do. To munitions workers standing with outstretched arms in the shadow...
The Marshal did not speak softly. He knew his audience. Cheering workmen wanted to hear of the victory. He told them: "German arms on land and in the air have achieved what has been considered unbelievable." They wanted to hear that the Westwall was safe. He said so: "If they...
Hardheaded, commonsensical, down-to-earth, tough guy-to-tough guys as the Führer is mystical, Field Marshal Goring made a good job of it. For home consumption he piled up the cheering news: Victory in Poland within two weeks ("our divisions marched as humans never marched before") would...
Lenin during the Civil War, but Lenin and Trotsky together were too smart for him. In Author Souvarine's sober account of these years following the revolution, the predicament of Lenin stands out painfully: plunged by his own victory into a chaos which compelled him to backtrack step by...