Word: gestapoed
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...Southerners are now prepared to compromise and try integrated education. Basic attitudes toward blacks may have changed little, but pragmatic considerations are overshadowing them. Thus the few Southern leaders who continue to rant racism get less of a hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white boycotts in Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., failed...
...police. Black Panther Huey Newton, freed on $50,000 bail while awaiting a new trial for voluntary manslaughter, had absurdly venomous words for the system that had jailed him and then set him free. To a crowd of at least 500 clenched-fist supporters in Oakland, he shouted: "The Gestapo has promised that they will crush us!" Appropriately enough, at a meeting of state chief justices in St. Louis, Chief Justice Warren Burger pleaded for order in the court. Traditional courtroom discipline, he said, is "the absolutely imperative lubricant for an inherently contentious process...
...Hitler's concentration camps; of carcinomatosis; in Boston. Daughter of a Berlin rabbi, she was forced from the stage by the Nazis in 1933; for the next six years, until her own escape from Germany, played a role in the underground: armed with forged papers, she entered the Gestapo's death camps on 62 occasions and drove off with 412 inmates marked for extermination...
...recent display by New York hardhats with their Gestapo-type invasion of a peace rally was disgusting! As a 28-year-old college student, ex-paratrooper and active participant in peace demonstrations, I was enraged at their actions...
...Gunther produced the first of his fast-paced, infinitely detailed books, Inside Europe. ("I wrote, among other things, that the Führer was nil sexually" -a bit of lèse-majesté that would have marked him for elimination if he had ever fallen into Gestapo hands); it was an instant success, and over the years was followed by "Insides" on Asia, Latin America, the U.S., Africa and Russia. Some critics scoffed at him us "the Book-of-the-Month-Club Marco Polo," but many others regarded his works as journalistic tours de force, exhaustive in research, penetrating...