Word: gestapoed
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That night, when Mr. Silkin rose to speak at the town hall, he was greeted with yells of "Gestapo!" "Hark, the dictator!" "We want our birthright!" Red-faced Mr. Silkin shouted back: "Really, you are the most ungenerous people...
...coat and a pair of green woolen gloves. The once socially aloof Wilhelmina invited a Miss Marianne Tellegen to be head of her personal cabinet. Miss Tellegen had no social standing whatever; she had merely been a heroine of the Dutch resistance, living for four years next door to Gestapo headquarters in Utrecht...
...days at Nürnberg, tall, intense ex-Gestapo agent Dr. Hans Bernd Gisevius "sang." He had some significant gossip to impart: in 1933 War Minister Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg (54, widowered father of five) met Erika Gruhn in one of Berlin's better brothels. Said Gisevius, she was licensed to ply her prostitute's trade in seven major cities, and, as a sideline, she sold pornographic literature. By 1938, she had acquired such influence over the Herr Minister that he decided to marry...
After sunset, tens of thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to the big city feel a lemming-like urge to go nightclubbing. The way is usually beset by obstacles and hazards: doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...
...gestapo situation is definitely possible. If we live in such a tense world community as an atom race will produce, the national security must be placed paramount to all other considerations. Control of atomic information would have to be handed to the military, and then cloaked in secrecy. The more afraid we become, the tighter will become the secrecy. And the tighter the secrecy, the tighter the totalitarianism," he pointed...