Word: whoever
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they entertained Anna Held in Dudley Hall, when the champagne flowed and the marble stairs were covered with rose-petals. Or how one of the Claverly's used to drive to Geology 4 in a barouche drawn by four horses. Of the days when he made Fishhouse Punch for whoever was man enough to drink...
...Germans reacted with a snarl. These instructions proved, they said, that the British were planning to use gas. To the British, this reaction was bad news. They remembered what Adolf Hitler had said in pre-apology for all-out bombings: "From now on, bomb will be answered with bomb. . . . Whoever disregards the rules of humane warfare cannot expect from us that we will not take the same step...
...Four years ago Franklin Roosevelt said: "My great ambition on Jan.20, 1941 is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact..." (TIME, March...
...draft of his first speech in the U. S., to be delivered at a Pilgrims dinner in New York Feb. 24. Since this will be soon after Envoy Hopkins' return, it seemed not unlikely that Lord Halifax would also have something to say about peace aims. Whoever said it first, the U. S. was soon to know a great deal more about what Britain is fighting for. And the U. S. was due to discuss Britain's, and the U. S.'s, war and peace aims more and more earnestly in the months to come...
...Nazis' annoyance, Dutch churches still pray for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Royal Family and The Netherlands Government." A typical Calvinist leader is outspoken 71-year-old ex-Premier Hendrikus Colijn, editor of the Standaard. At a mass meeting recently at Scheveningen he said: "Whoever knows anything about our people knows that we will have nothing to do with imported extremism. . . . We have shown the occupying Power that we cannot shed our national characteristics in choosing the political path we wish to follow. . . . Nobody can lift the veil of the future, but those who take...