Word: blucher
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...some towns rivals clashed, and the police used batons and hoses. There were near riots in Frankfurt; in West Berlin cops arrested 239 out of a gang of 500 when they tried to break up a Christian Democratic meeting presided over by the Vice Chancellor of West Germany, Franz Blucher...
...bosom friend, Ordjonikidze, poisoned by Stalin's orders, shouts into a telephone as he lies dying: "Koba, I go, but you will follow me."- Red Army Marshal Tukhachevsky refuses to confess, and is felled by a bullet from the NKVD chief, Nikolai Yezhov. Red Army Marshal Blucher is called before the Politburo, where Stalin praises him as a genius. Marshal Voroshilov sends Blucher a look, as if to say: "Deny it. Say you haven't any genius...
Stalin's the only one with genius among us, don't you know that?" But Blucher just smiles with pleasure, lapping up Stalin's praise. The next morning he has disappeared...
...privileges-presiding over the annual convention of the A.F.L. Standing on the stage of San Francisco's echoing Civic Center auditorium, he could look out at and appraise the great men of U.S. labor's oldest clan-the hard-eyed and corpulent satraps in serge suits and blucher shoes, the sleek attorneys, the jovial bully boys, and all the delegates, great & small, from all the temples and parishes of craft unionism...
...alert in home waters, and by putting its offensive emphasis on submarines, it almost won the Battle of the Atlantic, contributed largely to German and Italian dominance of the Mediterranean in 1939-42. But, tactically, German Admirals Raeder and Doenitz have lost some great ships (Graf Spee, Bismarck, Blucher, etc.) in questionable actions...