Word: fi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiéchir (we'll think about it)," replied De Gaulle. He then added a sentence to his Compiégne speech (TIME, March 15) which startled French politicians. De Gaulle, who has never had a kind word for the Schuman government, said: ". . . What has to be done is too much for the potentialities of the present regime, however great the value and good will, which are undeniable, of some...
...ancient Negro in a battered porkpie hat used to lead visitors to a special stall at Faraway Farm, Ky. and say proudly: "An' heah, ladies an' gen'men, is Man o' War hisself. . . . He weigh 13 hunnert an' seventy-fi' pounds. I say, come heah...
...Germans exacted as heavy a toll of U.S. lives as they could. They fought like fiends up to the moment of annihilation; then they quit to save their skins. At Fort du Roule they fought among themselves over whether to surrender. Few insisted on dying for the Fi-hrer, although they had been ordered to fight to the death, and many fought their last battle literally with a revolver at their backs. Reported TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker: "The prisoners do not look gallant now; in fact they never were very gallant...
...have a fiührer complex about Mr. Hutchins . . . the best and wisest man I know. ... I think he is bored running [the] colossal war plant [which] the University of Chicago now is. ... So ... he decided to stage a one-man commando raid on the unguarded shrine of Let-Well-Enough-Alone. ... I believe that Mr. Hutchins is a menace to all the sacred precepts that have produced the glorious civilization we are now enjoying...
Berlin posters cried birthday greetings to the Fiührer: "Our walls may crumble but our hearts stay firm." Tiredly, Propagandist Joseph Goebbels eulogized: "Even the greatest leaders of history will be faced with occasional setbacks." Discreetly the radio did not play the Horst Wessel Song or the refrain: Today Germany, tomorrow the world!; instead, it broadcast a Handel Concerto Grosso, Beethoven's Eroica...