Word: funke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...criminals in Spandau who got along with all six of his companions. Albert Speer, No. 5, Hitler's production genius, said: "If we didn't have Von Neurath, we would all go crazy." They were an ill-assorted lot: fat, bald, obscene Walter Funk (No. 6); rich, young, suicidal Baldur von Schirach (No. 1); dangerous, unrepentant ex-Admiral Karl Doenitz (No. 2); weird, half-sane Rudolf Hess (No. 7): arthritic, pious ex-Admiral Erich Raeder (No. 4). Von Neurath would recall for them the glittering days when he was his country's envoy to the Kings...
Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...
CHINESE GORDON: THE STORY OF A HERO (256 pp.)-Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson-Funk & Waqnalls...
When Beria fell seven months ago, a change came over George. "Old Georgie seemed definitely in a funk the last few times I saw him," said a Western acquaintance. He had reason to be. Four weeks ago, a Russian team arrived in Japan for the world's speed-skating championships. They reserved an extra seat on the way back-for George. He had had orders to return to Moscow...
...RIVERS RAN EAST (366 pp.)-Leonard Clark-Funk & Wagnalls...