Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convicted again as a perjurer and pardoned by Franklin Roosevelt in time to organize the campaign for his fourth term." Then Tom Dewey explained why, in his view, the Communists are supporting Mr. Roosevelt. He dug up a quotation from a memorandum written by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle in 1939: "Over a period of years the Government will gradually come to own most of the productive plants in the United States...
...minutes the air parade roared over various sections of London. It was Sunday noon and in the churches worshipers commemorated another day of history: "The Victory of the Few." On this day, four years before, a few handfuls of R.A.F. fighter pilots had turned back Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. Londoners cheered. A Salvation Army band tried to match its tootling against the drumming of the engines, gave it up. But the drummer, his eyes on the sky, thumped and rolled a theme for the scene: the da-da-da-daaa of the V-rhythm...
...week the Germans in Rumania lost the rich oil fields of Ploesti; Constanta, Rumania's chief port on the Black Sea; Bucharest, the "little Paris" of the Balkans. Worst of all, by choosing to fight for the Wallachian plain, Adolf Hitler had lost the better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
...laid out for it. It was to be used in a suicide raid on hydroelectric plants in Norway. Later its mission was changed to simultaneous paratroop raids on key power plants scattered through Europe. Another gleam in the planners' eyes: a parachute raid on Berchtesgaden to kill Adolf Hitler...
...outstanding Soviet success of the week was achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...