Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rapacious Nazi beast was dying-but he was dying hard. Now he was backed to the door of his cavern and the blows of his enemies rained upon him without let. Through a bloody haze he saw vengeance closing in. He could no longer think, no longer speak to his followers in words that made even Nazi sense...
...beast spoke from the Brussels radio, as his troops fled the city, and his message was to Belgians. But for Germans who heard him, this was the harshest, strangest warning yet: "You [Belgians] will acclaim the Allied troops as they march through your streets. You will do that because you know that Britain has never lost the last battle...
What would the beast do now? Hole up in the Siegfried line and try to live a few days longer? Still try to fend off the powerful Russian assaults on the east and in the Balkans ? Live on after these bastions had fallen, while boys and old men, now under training in the Reich, died to postpone the day of doom...
Unless, somewhere in the last ditch, the beast's groping paws could find still a new weapon, there was no chance of even one final sally. The rocket coast was all but gone and London had promise of peace at last. Now bombers that had blasted at the robomb sites were free to concentrate on Germany...
...since the days of Victoria-"the great white queen across the seas"-had any white woman won comparable confidence among South Africa's natives. Their world is still a man's world, where a bride may be bought with cattle, where a wife labors as a beast of burden while her lord & master drinks Kaffir beer, hunts and squats on his haunches. Mrs. Ballinger had overcome the prejudice. More than that, as their Parliamentary spokesman, she was in a position to weld South Africa's tribesmen, now divided, into a single whole. For the Union, such...