Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DER FUEHRER, HITLER'S RISE TO POWER-Konrad Heiden-Haughton, Mifflin...
Chief Engineer. Hitler deliberately fostered chaos, deliberately postponed his own rise to power until chaos made him Der Führer. When he finally did reach for power, it was as the herald of a "mass drama that was breaking over the nation." Heiden believes that few chose to deny the drama's "grandeur," whatever its brutality. "No political conviction could banish from the world the eternal march rhythm of the Horst Wessel song." And the money poured in when success seemed likely-"the power of accomplished facts called forth reluctant admiration...
Says Professor C. J. Van der Horst: "The baboon is functionally so closely related to man that scientists in other parts of the world would regard it as a great forward step . . . if they could experiment on baboons instead of . . . cats, dogs, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits." Science has already given the monkeys stomach ulcers, will soon use them for work on diseases of women and malnutrition...
...Istanbul sources said Hitler's sub rosa nickname is now "Der Irreführer" (The Misleader); peace parades have been staged in thoroughly bombed Hanover and Wiener-Neustadt; an opposition section is growing up inside the Nazi Party, with Himmler and Goebbels ready to sell Hitler out if they or the Army generals can put over a separate peace with Russia -a hope which vanished last week...
...buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed it der schwarze Tod (the Black Death). Heavily armored, bristling with cannon, the Stormovik is deadliest at a perilous 80 ft. or lower...