Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recall, his wife vainly waited for news of him, last fortnight received orders to come home. Last week, apparently undecided about whether to put herself at the mercy of Prague, she shut herself into her London house (a servant answered the telephone with a nervous, "Madam is out. . ."). ¶ Adolf Hoffmeister, ambassador to Paris, suave, witty writer and cartoonist. His wife, announced the embassy, would "remain in Paris for the time being...
...British-made acid bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on July 20, 1944 in Adolf Hitler's headquarters, "Wolfschanze," deep in an East Prussian pine forest. Four men were killed, but Hitler staggered out slightly burned and bruised, though his hearing was affected. Within a few hours, an implacable hunt for the conspirators was unleashed. Before it was over, thousands of Germany's anti-Nazis were exterminated...
Bayreuth's case: some of Wagner's Third Reich worshipers (most notable: Adolf Hitler) "made him a Nazi-he was not." The prewar boss of the festival, Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred, mother of Wieland and Wolfgang, once an ardent Nazi, has retired from all connection with festival affairs in illustration of the point. Moreover, the new Bayreuth is stressing the fact that Wagner admired the U.S. He wrote a grand march for Philadelphia's celebration of the looth anniversary of independence (he was paid $5,000 for it*), planned to visit the U.S. before...
Diehard. In El Paso, a vagrant gave his name as Adolf Hitler, but was booked under the name he had used in signing a local motel register-Heinrich Himmler...
During those subordinate years at State, Acheson had been an intellectual lodestar, and sometimes spokesman of a "liberal" group opposed to a "right wing" group (led by Adolf Berle) which had taken an antipodal position on Red Russia. The Acheson group (which included, among others, Alger Hiss) had held various attitudes toward Russia, none of them unfriendly. It was the Acheson group which had been the first to believe that the Chinese Communists might be tamed, and the last to identify the real enemy as Soviet Russia...