Word: crackup
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While Allied leaders cried to their people that the war had not yet been won, that production must go on, no man could miss the signs of impending crackup. All in all, it was a fitting week for Winston Churchill to pay his sardonic respects to Adolf Hitler...
Apocalypse-Hitler, Himmler, Goring and Goebbels-now openly ruling as a Quadrumvirate, had launched the Reich on a careening toboggan that could only end in crackup...
Around the world as in Berlin the tense voice sounded like the crack of doom. The one question that flashed through every mind was: is this the end, "the crackup? Had the long-awaited struggle between Hitler and his generals begun...
...little Paul Joseph Goebbels could fool the people no longer. Though they showed no sign of crackup to the outside world, though they knew their army and even, perhaps, the vestiges of their surface navy, would put up a good stout fight, it was not so simple as all that...
...Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...