Word: bl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After Ribbentrop had finished with the Finns, he called a meeting of Germans in authoritative posts in Helsinki. Present were the Minister to Finland, Wipert von Blücher, the Gestapo chief and several other responsible officials. The grave-faced, pouch-eyed ex-champagne salesman spoke for an hour on Germany's international situation. She had lost the war, but could and would win the peace, he said...
...Moore Gubbins thinks that whether it will be short and bloody or long and bloody, it's been going on for too bl(whoa)-too long, anyway...
...howling crowds. He remained almost as expressionless through five miles of hostility as he had been through 60 miles of cheers. The difference was that he touched his hat to a hero named Martin Tupper who shouted, "Waterloo! Waterloo!" It was the 17th anniversary of the day Wellington and Blücher led the armies that saved the Empire, Europe, and the civilization that flowered in the long Victorian peace...
...Blücher was 73 at the Battle of Waterloo, and although his horse had fallen on him and saved him from death at the hands of charging French cavalry two days before at the Battle of Ligny, his determination and activity alone forced the Prussian Corps through the deep mud from Wavre to the relief of Wellington, who must otherwise have been annihilated by Napoleon. This was contrary to the counsel of his brilliant, and far younger, chief of staff, Gneisenau, who urged immediate withdrawal toward Germany...
When plans were drawn for converting the old Blücher Palace in Berlin into the U.S. Embassy, architects included a "powder room" for visiting ladies. Last week Gestapo agents marched into the Embassy with a copy of the architects' plan in which "powder room" was literally translated Pulverkammer. They demanded to see it, accusing the Embassy of storing munitions. They were shown to the ladies...