Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German such cracks as "Lies!" "A fairy tale!" "Hitler guilty!" This improvement of the jamming technique was quickly traced to the powerful transmitter RWL at Noginsk, 30 miles from Moscow, but the Nazis could do little about it. Sample broadcast, with interruptions by the voice, which Britons promptly christened Der Snag...
...Der Snag: In the grave...
...Der Tag for the American farm revolution was set last week for Sept. 15. Beginning that day, blunt Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard will appear first in Salt Lake City, then in Chicago, New York and Memphis to tell the farmers of each section their role in the greatest food-production program ever conceived...
...most fanatical. His fanaticism is military, not political. Leading an army into the Sudetenland, he took his twelve-year-old son, dressed in a sailor suit, along in his car "to impress on his son the beauty and exhilaration that lie in soldiering." German officers call him der Sterber, the dier, because of his great fondness for holding forth on the glories of dying for the Fatherland. It used to be generally said in Berlin that he had Russian blood in his veins. But it was blue blood...
...Vladivostok. Besides the U.S., his market - not very large - comprises the German-speaking regions of Switzer land. Sweden and South America. His current list includes Thomas Mann's Lotte in Weimar (The Beloved Returns) and Die vertauschten Köpje (The Transposed Heads) ; Franz Werfel's Der veruntreute Himmel (Embezzled Heaven} ; some verse and a fine line of anti-Nazi pamphlets...