Word: gestapoed
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...shot down Admiral Yamamoto's plane at Bougainville in 1943. Gossip rustled through the Pacific and into Washington cocktail parties; General Marshall got to the point of asking the FBI to find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs adopted a new code for military attaches. This code remained unbroken more than a year later. The worst...
...responsible for these crimes if they were not?"). This theory in turn rested on the premise that Adolf Hitler, such top Nazis as the dead Heinrich Himmler, the 20 in the dock and some 2,000,000 members of the Nazi Party's "Leadership Corps" (the Gestapo, SA, SS, etc.) had imposed Naziism on 70,000,000 Germans, and then, with the German military's help, had "driven" Germany...
...must be said for Mr. Field that the attack upon the Associated Press did not originate with him, but with the Department of Justice.... I was determined to resist what I considered coercion.... I was visited by FBI agents and threatened at a meeting probably such as the FBI-Gestapo never had before. . . ." At long last, the Colonel had hauled down his flag, hollered uncle, and surrendered, keeping his sidearms...
...with a roomful of 37 paintings ranging from My First Painting (1890) to a recent Girl in Oriental Costume. Through most of the German occupation the old master had been sick near Nice; he had painted lying in bed. In 1943 his wife and daughter were tortured by the Gestapo on suspicion (justifiable) of helping the underground, but were finally freed. Matisse's health is still delicate, but he has seldom painted with more youthful boldness and joie de vivre...
...fall of the year shone gently upon the broken cities and the exhausted fields of Europe. On Berlin's Kreuzberg, frost stiffened upon the worm-wrought, illegible features of an exhumed, Gestapo-killed cadaver to which someone had attached a tag reading, Homo sapiens...