Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Role Playing. Such self-conscious role playing was the very fabric of Hitler's life, says Fest. The book, not surprisingly, often presents the Führer in the ebb and flow of rich personal melodrama. Early on, the reader meets the "idling student, promenading in Linz with his cane and kid gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich...
...fawning on the natural features of the city. Mrs. Emma Endicott Marean writes about the discovery of the river Charles by Englishmen: "No Hudson was this beguiling stream, which promised much in its wide welcome to the eager adventurers, but soon betrayed the secret of its dependence on the ebb and flow of the tides, confessing its narrow banks and its country manners...
Third Version. Only when he discussed a detail of his own Watergate role did Nixon's confidence seem to ebb. His voice grew tremulous as he described his increasingly crucial conversation with John Dean, his former counsel, on March 21,1973. In a statement last Aug. 15, Nixon said Dean had told him that secret payments had been made to the original Watergate defendants only to meet their legal costs. On March 6 of this year, however, Nixon said flatly in a press conference that Dean had told him on March 21 that the cash was meant...
Kilson said the Afro Department, along with the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center, "separates blacks from the ebb and flow of Harvard life and from tendencies that result in an ability to manipulate the power system of America...
...deux chevaux was there, and Jean-Luc, but Francois was not. When Jean-Luc saw me returning alone, his face tightened. He remembered, I suppose, someone he had once pulled out from the next morning's ebb. I remembered, too. "Call the police," I said. He went for the phone. I went down the crooked steps to the chapel behind the house for a moment's rest before they came...