Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union gave the U. S. contribution to the War of Nerves a day to cool off, then rejected his proposal. Said Ham Fish, who had in a big way filled the role of U. S. political tout-tourer of the summer to Europe: "I wash my hands of the whole thing...
...last week's offensive had the sweep of a great military campaign. Resistance to it had a kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints...
...Poland did not give way. In seven days incidents and insults mounted to staggering proportions. A Polish soldier was shot because he blundered over the invisible line, as deadly as a high tension wire, that separates Poland and Danzig; two customs officers were hauled in by Danzig police; a Polish passport office was raided...
...project lagged; King Carol loafed in exile with his girl friend Magda Lupescu; British suspicion of Russia, which perhaps prompted the thought of a Black Sea base in the first place, gave way to fear of a rearmed Germany; Balkan politics remained Balkan politics, and neither the base nor the Rumanian Navy amounted to much...
...swept across the granite-peaked peninsula behind a curtain of bombings, unresisted except by a few peasants, some of whom were armed only with farm implements. The attackers, summarily executing any Chinese so much as seen with a gun, invested 13 miles of British border. Across the way on British soil, men of the Middlesex Regiment and Rajputana Rifles lined the barbed-wire frontier, alert for Britain's territorial integrity...