Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Turkish-British support, but refused to "sign" and indicated that what Turkey will actually do cannot be decided until President Ismet Inönü knows, among other things, just how much support the Bank of England is willing to give Turkish currency and just how much in the way of armaments the British care to send to Turkey. In circles close to His Majesty's Government the "difficulties" of shipping arms to Turkey now and the "dislocation" this would cause in British armament schedules were gravely stressed. The emphasis was kept on hospitality, champagne and whiskey-sodas...
...made her way to the surface ("it was swell, that air"), grabbed a floating barrel, helped some men gather planks for a raft...
...Back at the airport Hitler proved that what had made him thoughtful had not made him either remorseful or humble-or accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles as Warsaw could have an opportunity of seeing, as you have, the real meaning...
...British freighter Clement in the South Atlantic, merchant mariners under the Union Jack had a fearful old familiar phrase on their tongues. Red-faced first mates on the British India boats chunkin' to Rangoon, the paler men who dodge growlers on the foggy way to Greenland, big men on the cold Cape haul-all were nervous on the watch and reminiscent at mess because of a capricious, romantic, dangerous ghost that was out kissing British ships again: the German raider...
...Auntie, who, Joy neglected to say, lost her 13-year-old daughter in the sinking, but it was not all for many a skipper who must continue to dodge mines, many an unsung hero who must sow them, many an even braver man who must sweep them to make way for men o' war, transports, supply ships. Technique learned in the bitter school of 1914-18 is now in full play on both sides of World...