Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's announcement. This system of presenting the electorate with only one slate consisting entirely of Government-picked candidates, Benito Mussolini introduced into Italy five years ago (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). Inevitably the Hitler Government must win-100%. Characteristically Chancellor Hitler did not threaten last week to re-arm in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's technique of assault, highly developed during his struggle for power in Germany, consists in alternate hammer blows and conciliatory gestures. This method kept his German political foes in turmoil, helped to paralyze their resistance until the Nazis were able...
...this man-he hit me!" "You can appeal, if you like," shrugged the policeman, "to our police lieutenant on the corner." "Herr Leutnant!" spluttered Mr. Velz, but the officer cut him short. "You did not salute the flag? It is always advisable to give the Nazi salute. Raise your arm, like this-so!-and you will be all right." In no mood to practice Nazi salutes, bleeding Citizen Velz rushed off to the U. S. consulate in Berlin, swore to the facts of his bashing and waited to see what action would be taken by that detached, God-fearing Baptist...
...commands the method, carries out the procedure, puts the parts into perfect apposition, but God knits the scar. "He sews severed arteries that they may carry their crimson torrent without leak and without hindrance. The delicate nerve must be spliced to give the return of welcome sensation to palsied arm. He sews the viscera so truly that they become watertight. He mends the splintered bone and repairs the lacerated flesh while holding to the skirts of the frightened spirit, lest it should flee in flight. "When a surgical operation is described as beautiful, it seems incongruous and uncanny...
...Ford dealers began to sell Lincolns. The more Lincolns the Ford dealers sold, the less Sweeten and other Lincoln dealers sold. Henry H. Rudolph, a former Sweeten vice president, swore that when he told Henry Ford that they had dropped $196,000. Mr. Ford had put his arm around his shoulders, saying: "Never mind. Rudolph, we will see that you get it all back...
...little men as they plowed through the water. They found that the crawl used by the Japanese was fundamentally the same as the so-called Australian crawl; but since the Japanese race is composed of small men, certain modifications had been made which were adapted to the shorter arm movememt of the swimmers. In the first place, the Japanese were completely relaxed in the water. There was no tension of any part; every muscle was loose and ready for work. To this lack of tension has been attributed much of the success of the team. There were more important reasons...