Word: connect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...permitted atrocities in areas under his command; had condoned the shooting, gassing and drowning of Jews, gypsies and other minorities, the execution of Russian soldiers, political commissars and civilians, and the deportation of Russians to Germany for slave labor. The defense tried to show that there was little to connect their client personally with any of these deeds. The slaughter of Jews, contended his British and German lawyers, was carried out by an SS unit attached to Manstein's command only for "supply" purposes...
...these activities are understood in our best universities. That is to say, their thoughts came higgledy-piggledy out of the big, buzzing, booming confusion of their minds, too many pouring out chaotically in the same instant . . . Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect and to discriminate...
...British university standards, many "could not... either read or write...Somewhere in their early education there was a failure to order, to connect, and to discriminate... they read rapidly, desperately, and far too much ... and the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...
...favored each of them with a slight bow, a miniature smile, and a small, limp hand. The ring which he had once had tattooed on his finger was concealed by a wide gold band, his tattooed watch by one that told the right time. It was not easy to connect the gentle and sedate old Japanese with the Foujita...
...this achievement is simplicity and functional design. In three instances, for example, a stair well is made to do double duty by using it to connect two buildings, each using the same set of stairs. This not only cuts building costs, but also helps to unify the group...