Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scheme that then seemed grandiose and daring beyond any dim 1937 Republican dreams gradually took shape under the still-sandy thatch that belies McNary's age (65). When all but a few bumbling die-hards believed the President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception...
Integral part of Adolf Hitler's technique of getting his way in Europe is the use of "military diplomacy." At the psychological moment troops will be massed at weak frontiers, conferences of Generals will be held, inspired stories will be printed telling of fleets of German planes ready to take off and blast Paris and London to bits with newly invented high-pressure bombs. Last week British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, announcing the date of Parliament's adjournment for a three months' vacation, boasted that "there is every indication that Britain's newly regained power...
...hole about the size of a quarter in the skull under the temple, lifts up the brain, exposes the root of the fifth cranial nerve, which serves the upper and lower jaws and the eyes. He delicately separates the fibres, severs only the sensory jaw fibres. In this way he has successfully relieved some 200 tic sufferers. In no case has the pain recurred...
...years out of Princeton, Holmes Moss Alexander was elected to the Maryland Legislature. There he found no cause to doubt "the basic assumption of professional lobbying, that every man has his price or his weakness," soon committed political suicide by saying: "The way we made swag of the taxpayers' money was little short of piracy." His brief experience as a legislator stood him in good stead when he came to write his second novel, American Nabob...
...less durable than Utopias in peace. End of Spartacus' briefly brilliant career came when asthmatic, cynical Marcus Crassus propped up the tottering Roman republic for a few more years by crushing the rebellion. Crassus celebrated his triumphal return by crucifying 6,000 of his captives along the Appian Way...