Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow listened to any protest at call, it would not be to the feeble whisper of its southern neighbor. To Moscow went a note from London requesting an explanation. How much farther Britain would or could go depended on how much tougher the U.S. would be in its new foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able to whisper. The Army remained quiescent, but even trusted veterans were attending secret meetings of extreme nationalist groups. The British Government would have to act fast...
...controlled press. He knows that the West's brand of freedom is no longer welcome in a great many parts of the world today, but he still believes in it, and when he shouted in UNO he did so in the conviction that freedom need not whisper anywhere...
...first the Aussie jungle fighters jeered at Media Koigi's goose pimples. Soon they grew respectful. A native New Guinea scout, Koigi said his flesh rose whenever the enemy was near. At night, in deep jungle bivouacs, he would suddenly awaken, feel the skin tightening on his arms, whisper to his sergeant: "Japan man, Japan man." He was always as right as radar. Once, at Koigi's direction, the Aussies threw a grenade 50 yards up the dense jungle trail, killed an unseen...
Quisling's voice dropped to a whisper and there was a glint of cunning in his eyes. He had only wanted, he said, to save Norway from a British attack...