Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sign the Alliance with England and France, Germany will have to ... seek a modus vivendi with the Western Powers which would be later very dangerous for us. If on the contrary we accept the Reich's offer of collaboration, the latter will not hesitate to crush Poland; England and France will be thereupon drawn fatally into war. There will result a thorough destruction of Western Europe, and remaining outside the conflict we can advantageously await our hour...
More serious than this subjective terror are dislocations of the jaw, tiny compression fractures of the spine, which occurred to metrazol patients in over 40% of one series of cases. During their violent convulsions, patients arch their backs with such force that sometimes they literally crush their vertebrae...
...deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn "Vår Gud är oss en väldig borg" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). In the enthusiastic crush 17 people fainted...
...Laurels. The Polish victory came first on Speaker Hitler's list, accompanied by three bare-faced lies. Lie No. 1: "A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants took up arms against us. Their arms were far-reaching, and their confidence in their ability to crush Germany knew no bounds." Lie No. 2: In spite of the "violations and insults which Germany and her armed forces had to put up with from these military dilettantes," the First Soldier of the Reich claimed that he "endeavored to restrict aerial warfare to objectives of so-called military importance...
Most emphatic undergraduate journal in the East was The Dartmouth, only daily newspaper in the town of Hanover, N. H., and a member of the Associated Press. Wrote Editor Thomas Wardell Braden Jr.: "In the last great war men of our age died:1) for democracy, 2) to crush German Imperialism. These words don't always mean what they say. We need to remember that there are ideals of truth and realism stronger than the fake ideals which are battering at us from Europe...