We've got over a much worse one--the Balkan crisis.

There isn't a single contentious question before us just now.

The sky is almost clear." "Believe me," Wyatt insisted earnestly, "that's just the time to look for the thunderbolt.

Can't you see that when Germany goes to war, it will be a war of conquest, the war which she has planned for all these years?
She'll choose her own time, and she'll make a _casus belli_, right enough, when the time comes.

Of course, she'd have taken advantage of the position last year, but she simply wasn't ready.