Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither, many a Parisian agreed, had Paris itself, not even in the dark days when Adolf Hitler came to town as a conqueror. While the Yugoslav dictator and his official hosts swept freely along cleared boulevards in the city, the plain citizens of Paris found their own progress blocked at every turn. Never smooth flowing, the city's traffic became a nightmare of confusion as main thoroughfares were blocked off for hours at a time...
Nights and days run together. The Russians and the Americans meet at the Elbe. Hitler shuffles paper armies, daydreams in helpless fury of destroying the world. A moment later, the six Goebbels children are romping about their Onkel Adolf like pretty puppies. The young captain gets drunk and shoots off his mouth. Himmler offers peace without Hitler's consent. Eva's brother-in-law is shot, on Hitler's orders, as a deserter; and on Hitler's orders a Berlin subway, full of German women and children, is flooded to keep the Russians...
...quite simple," General Burgdorf says with bitter amusement. "If He did, we wouldn't." The Russians are two blocks away. Smoke pours in the air vents; death seeps into every thought. The angry captain gives Hitler a piece of his mind, and is shot for his pains. Adolf marries his Eva and prepares his suicide. "The German people," he says bitterly, "are not worthy of me." In the canteen a girl dances dreamily in a corner, starts to unbutton her blouse. In the conference room of Hitler's apartment, his aides wait tensely. The shot rings...
...third game of the day at Soldiers Field, the Yardling nine will oppose the Brown freshmen, also at 3 p.m. Coach Adolf Samborski's charges have won three straight contests, having trounced Exeter, 3-0 in their last game. All three victories have been shutouts...
Thirdbaseman Maurice Balboni was the hitting star for the Freshmen with a double and a single. Coach Adolf Samborski singled out the keystone combination of George Harrington and Levon Kasarjiian as deserving of special praise. The duo accounted for two double plays in Saturday's game...