Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen to force a hard solution. The heirs of Smuts in Parliament are ineffectually led by boyish-faced Jacobus Gideon Strauss, an anglicized Boer who apes Smuts's mannerisms but lacks his master's voice. Outside Parliament they have found an idealistic but impulsive leader in Adolf ("Sailor") Malan, a cousin of the Prime Minister's and an ex-R.A.F. group captain in the Battle of Britain. Sailor Malan has organized 175,000 World War II veterans in his Torch Commando, which is pledged to defend the constitution-if necessary, by force. Said he last week...
...days as a house painter, Adolf Hitler had an amateur's passion for water colors and oils. As a youth he peddled his postcardlike views of Vienna, Munich and romantic ruins from door to door, sold some for roughly a dollar a daub...
...officers' corps. The ousted officers holed up in the National Hotel. Batista sent soldiers to disarm them. Welles, who lived at the hotel, stopped that showdown by seating himself midway between the rival forces in the long lobby and imperturbably discussing Emily Dickinson's poetry with Adviser Adolf Berle until the soldiers withdrew. But 25 days later, fighting broke out at the hotel. After Batista's soldiers had lobbed 200 shells into the building, the officers surrendered. Batista, then only 32, was master of Cuba...
...Being Ruled, Time and Western Man) and pamphlets, he attacked the little man, the big man and the "mass units" of democracy. A rogue male who belonged to no herd, no party, he was worshiped by a few and tolerated by many-until the fateful day when Adolf Hitler loomed up on the horizon and captivated him. "To my eternal shame," groaned Lewis last year, "I ... wrote that Hitler was a man of peace...
Chauncey, who got two hits against Boston Teachers College Wednesday, will be replaced in centerfield by Frank White. Commenting on the 4 to 2 win against the Teachers, Coach Adolf Sambiraju said that he feels he "has a better team than last year," and that he was particularly impressed by the play of third baseman Joe Conzelman, hurler Chauncey, and the two-hit pitching of Andy Ward...