Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon after, Herr Hitler issued two other proclamations. One officially mobilized the Army, which of course had got its real marching papers long before: "Wherever the march meets resistance, it shall be broken immediately and with every means. ..." A third manifesto announced the new triumph to the German people. They showed no emotion. Herr Hitler has never let them think for a minute that any of his adventures have the smallest chance of meeting defeat...
...Repeatedy warned that resistance would be fatal, dazed by surprise, their spirit broken since Munich anyhow, crowds greeted the first armored cars in Prague's streets in dumb despair. Later in the day they grew defiant. Whistles and jeers greeted each new squadron. Groups sang the Czech anthem and wept openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week...
Boeing's 33-passenger Stratoliner, pressurized to travel above the airways at 20,000 feet, was in her death throes, had broken up in an engineering test dive. Down the crippled ship came, spinning, straightening out, sailing like a piece of ragged paper, carrying the ten men in her to sure death...
Both Kuhn and Taylor are members of the Union Committee, the executive committee of the Freshman class. Taylor was goalie on the Yardling hockey team, and Kuhn played end on the football team until he was disabled by a broken ankle in the Dartmouth game...
...basis of incomplete returns, Dunster House seems well on the way towards a new all-time record for broken windows with 12 panes shattered by snowballs within the last week. Lowell is second with six fractured transparencies. Eliot occupies the cellar position as usual with a clean slate...