Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dollars were still left in the fund, and lumber and materials for a house (with electric lights and a bathroom) were on order. Powell's Furniture Store of Inman had promised to furnish the front room. The First Baptist Church of Landrum had donated a Bible, the Orange Crush Co. a mule, and other gifts were still coming in-an electric pump, fertilizer, pecan trees, dishes...
...Bride's Day. With troops coming home, the war romances were beginning to break up, too. Many had bloomed in the tense atmosphere of ten-day leaves, between girls who had a crush on uniforms and careless youths hungry for any woman. Many a bobby-sox bride had married a soldier to get his allotment check, or his insurance...
...large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was wispy-haired Anna Hampel (who, according to one witness, had a crush on a French internee. "She tried to flirt with him, but he was reluctant, so she beat him all the time...
...personally ordering the attack on Paris. It was Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
...their estate he found the Spartan antidote to Weimar decadence. Prussian history books taught him that the famed Prussian tradition was founded on the rock of religious faith, that it demanded austerity, unflinching loyalty and toil. Prussianism in action was "the militant church," and those who sought to crush it attacked "the fundamental values and virtues of every monastic order in the world." The Arrogant Americans. In the black post-War I years, Hauser learned to hate both the ineffectual democracy of the Weimar Republic and the luxury-ridden democracy of the U.S. Like many un employed Germans, he lived...