accommodation; reception; seating; custody (e.g. awaiting deportation); internment; admission
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
resolute; firm; dauntless; undaunted
to (an extent); up to; doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; even if ...
postwar period; period after Second World War
close associate; close aide; brains-truster
person killed in action; the war dead
king of the hill; king of the castle; king of the mountain
to domineer; to throw one's weight around; to lord it (over)
to do something by choice; to like; to be fond of
doctrine; rule; principle; -ism
humorous; funny; amusing; laughable; hilarious; comical
to play a central role; to take a leading part
having nothing to do; having time on one's hands (and not knowing what to do); being at a loose end; being bored
to be squashed by; to be pinned under
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
to take away; to carry away
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
opportunism; waiting and seeing (how the wind blows); sitting on the fence; straddling
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
four (long cylindrical things)
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
immediate reply; quick answer; ready agreement
four-eyed; pattern of four squares
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor
this occasion; at this time; now
gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step
mean; malicious; scheming; wicked; black-hearted
front part; frontage; facade; initial pledge (e.g. election); opening slogan
bad (fictitious) bill; empty promise
capture (of enemy weapons, supplies, etc.); seizure; plunder
ownership; dominion; ownership rights; proprietorship; property rights
100,000; hundred thousand