Word: bureaucratical
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Much more satisfactory than the formal irony of the wall itself, are the individual insights given throughout the book in the ironic or sarcastic passages. Here is a bureaucrat-turned underground-fighter, who has just been captured by the Germans out on the rubble heap that was the ghetto, being questioned...
Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
...helped him to put his statement together. The Navy board would have company. Carl Vinson and Committee Counsel Joseph B. Keenan also promised that they would get to the bottom of Cedric Worth's undercover campaign against the Air Force and the Administration. Most committee members believed that Bureaucrat Worth could not have done it without a lot of help from Navy officers...
Longer than Empire. The man of this faith was born a Roman Catholic in the shadow of Cologne's magnificent twin-spired cathedral. His father, a minor bureaucrat, wanted him to be a bank clerk, but young Konrad looked with awe upon the high Beamten (officials) who strode about Cologne exuding importance. He decided to get a university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy...
...right down to it, the thing that broke up the Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split...