Word: bricked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Security officers rushed to the camp. They took him to a brick villa outside Lüneburg, stripped him, found a tiny blue glass vial of poison in his clothes. Then a British sergeant major and a doctor searched him-under his arms, in his ears, his hair. Finally the doctor decided to look into Himmler's mouth. The prisoner quickly ground his jaws, and fell to the floor. He had concealed a second poison vial in his mouth, and had broken it with his teeth. The potassium cyanide worked quickly:* in 15 minutes he was dead...
...lives with his son and daughter-in-law in an old, nondescript red brick house in Washington. There the Admiral has a bare combination bedroom and office. His old painted iron bed, which his daughter-in-law considers a monstrosity, is as chipped as a battleship's anchor. On the walls are a few Navy cutlasses. In a locker ("closet" to landlubbers) is a supply of brandy. The Admiral, who smokes furiously, drinks little, but relishes a nip of brandy in the evening...
...corner of northwestern Germany the German war spirit still throve. Around the red brick Marine & Signal School in Flensburg milled armed German soldiers and sailors. Sometimes they drilled stiffly, sometimes they sang Wir Fahren Gegen Engeland and the Horst Wessel Lied...
Shortly before noon today the bodies were removed to a mortuary. Mussolini and Petacci were dragged like sacks of grain into a high-walled courtyard. Men, women & children followed, climbing the brick wall and peering over at the shapeless pulp that was the Duce's face. The people's temper, as though satiated, seemed calmer now. "At last, it is finished," said one quietly. "He was punished...
Patients v. Doctors. Veterans' hospitals are always clean, but they are rarely pleasant places. Typical is the tuberculosis hospital at Rutland Heights, Mass., housed in a red-brick and stucco group of buildings at a lonely crossroads some 13 miles north of Worcester.* The morale of the 446 patients, 16 doctors and two dentists is decidedly...