Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second dash in a duel of flying wedges. Merriwell did not have to think about a war, or the fact that Harvard was playing its most honored and blasphemed rival for the last time for the duration. Back in those days, it was easy. You just played football, and Adolf Hitler was busy hanging paper. And 60,000 people packed Yale Bowl, hysterical in their partisanship...
...political triumph was made even clearer by the conduct of enemies. Adolf Hitler made a curious reference to the Kaiser's flight from Germany (see p. 36). The German radio clamored about "brutal assault . . . shameless breach . . . gangster methods . . . imperialistic aims . . . piece of impudence." In keeping, Tokyo broadcasters squeaked and hissed: "Illegal . . . international banditry ... a most ungentlemanly act." Bern reported that Rome was in a state of "stupefied pessimism," and Rome's radio spokesmen admitted that "the horizon is black. . . . Tonight the Italian people . . . is facing a terrible trial...
Panic in Vichy. Fright seemed plainest of all among the Vichy cabal of royalists, fascists and opportunists. They had placed their bets on Adolf Hitler as the architect of Europe's future. They had tried at one & the same time to placate Hitler and grab as much of France as possible for themselves. In this bargaining game they had sold out the French people by all manner of internal concessions, by making cargo shipments to the Axis in Libya, admitting German "technicians and importers" to Africa, deporting French workers and Jewish refugees to Germany, libeling Third Republican leaders...
...they expected clear-cut, reassuring statements, they were disappointed. Adolf Hitler's brightest predictions, as he spoke from Munich's Lowenbrdukeller on the 19th anniversary of his first abortive Putsch, were that Germany would hold her lines and some day strike back. His most fervent injunction to the people was that they pray for the Reich's survival "in this war for the existence or destruction of our nation...
...delightful. The Fiji native, one of the world's finest indolent characters, is happy, hospitable, courteous. He is an excellent singer and he sings almost all the time. He is also a superb sailor and navigator. The 19th-Century Chief Thakombau was the title character of Adolf Brewster's King of the Cannibal Isles, and there have been cases of Fijis eating each other and missionaries, but the habit has died...