Word: documented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitler's every order in the naive belief that the Führer would accept responsibility for his actions. While more cynical generals like Gotthard Heinrici, commander of the Vistula Army Group, beat a retreat toward the American lines, Keitel went back to Berlin to sign the surrender document that he had never believed would be written. All around him the other evil men of Nazidom were taking the easy way out: Hitler was followed in suicide by Himmler, Goebbels and Goring...
...also discussed the effects of the Scheffler report on the Graduate School of Education and the Doty Report on General Education. He called the Report "neither a dramatic nor an iconoclastic document, reasoned and moderate," and said that "it promises effectively to set a course and provide, if not a new, at least a renewed sense of direction for the School...
Much more than the "verbatim" document it was first announced as, In Cold Blood is a new kind of saga, and a unique landmark in American historiography. Its impact and brilliance, the result of a six-year quest after every person and detail involved in the murder, mark the demise of Capote, the literary mannerist. He has abandoned the mellifluous language honed for his previous work, and discovered a new diction--based on listening to a staggering amount of mental transcription taken from the entire cast of a protracted drama--to handle the lives, minds, and language of those directly...
...bondsmen "may pull the string whenever they please." The bondsmen may "pursue him into another state, may arrest him on the Sabbath; and if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." In retrieving a prisoner from another state, the bondsman needs no warrant, only a court document called a "bail piece," which states his bail relationship to the defendant...
Though the document defended Poland's postwar acquisition of the Oder-Neisse territories as a "basic question of existence," it sought forgiveness for the suffering of German refugees and expellees forced from their homelands in the Polish takeover. Such sentiments had not been heard by Germans from Poles since the war, and the German bishops were delighted to accept the invitation. In their response, they carefully explained that when Germans speak of their Heimatsrecht to the eastern territories, "it does not-with a few exceptions-signify aggressive intentions" but merely a feeling of remaining emotionally "linked to their homeland...