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Word: acheron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers. But the mass of Germans remain doubtful and suspicious; a relapse in West Germany's economic health, or even its failure to improve, may incite bitter resentment and political collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Dante wrote a wonderful account of it." Devil Bedeviled. "Well," said Heydrich, and a crafty look appeared in his lizard-green eyes, "I would like to make a few suggestions. That old fool, Charon, at the river Acheron. He batted me one with his oar when I protested that he should have a special boat reserved for members of the Master Race. What democratic weaknesses are these! And your centaurs with bows & arrows, and your beds of hot sand and serpents and wasps! What you need here are tanks and flamethrowers and soft-nosed bullets. And why do you maim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heydrich's Inferno | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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