Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summer of 1944, things began to pile up on Private Karl Schleicher of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht. German army medicine was ready and able to treat his wounded thigh after a Russian bullet had creased it, but the German supply system was not up to replacing his torn pants. Private Schleicher, turned down by his sergeant, pinched a pair for himself from the quartermaster's store, and went into battle again. In the midst of the fray he lost his unit, got back to it a week later, just in time to be arrested for pants-stealing...
Died. William Adolf Irvin, 78, onetime railroad freight agent who rose through the ranks to become president of U.S. Steel Corp. (1932-38), helped organize and became chairman of the National Safety Council; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...awaiting trial in Prague for crimes vaguely described as "activities against the state." Last week a clearer picture of the crimes, and of a growing Communist crusade, emerged from a speech made by Communist Premier Antonin Zapotocky. The speech, an appeal to national pride which might have stemmed from Adolf Hitler, was a bitter attack on "Jewish capitalism" and "interference from Jerusalem." Slansky, like several of the victims of Czechoslovakia's current party purge, is a Jew. Therefore, he is, in the favorite word the Commies use to denounce Jews, a "cosmopolite." The Communist organ Rude Pravo explained further...
...returns in Manhattan, MOT decided to reissue its whole stock of 205 films in eleven other coast-to-coast cities, planned to include more cities as prints became available. Sample sights in store: Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon out to overthrow Roosevelt's New Deal; the rise of Adolf Hitler; Father Coughlin and Huey Long on the stump; the Midwest's bleak Dust Bowl...
From an article published in The New York Times of December 9, 1951, it appears that you objected in an editorial that the name of Adolf Sannwald, a German chaplain, and a former student of Harvard University was included on a memorial dedicated to the 697 students, alumni and faculty who died in Word...