Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glaring omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst...
...Dong is, and counts himself, All-American. Since April, as an Army private, he has been doing secret plainclothes work for the cloak-&-dagger Office of Strategic Services. On furloughs he returns to his apartment just off Nob Hill and his pretty Chinese-American wife. He sometimes wears a blue mandarin coat but also likes loud sports jackets...
...speak of democracy. We know of your treatment of the American Japanese. We know of your race riots, both north and south, 'the underhanded persecution of the Negro and the Jew. At least we Germans were not hypocritical. We did not hide our acts and persecutions under the cloak of your supposed democracy. Is all this not true? Can you truthfully scream 'propaganda...
...August best-seller lists were packed with tried-&-true favorites that had been published one, two, even three years ago. Still prominent in popular fiction lists were trusty epics (1942's The Robe; 1943's The Fountainhead); cloak-&-dagger tales set in more glamorous periods of history (Captain from Castile, Commodore Hornblower); fleshly garlands of love ("Oh!" sighed a harassed Manhattan bookdealer, "how tired I am of young girls whispering that they want Forever Amber...
John Carradine, Hollywood cloak-&-dagger character actor, was arrested and released on $2,000 bail after his ex-wife complained that he was about to leave California without paying up the $4,116 back alimony she says he owes...