Word: gestapoes
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...people." But former Senator S.I. Hayakawa, a formidable semanticist who led the crusade, promised it was not meant to homogenize Californian life. * "If you want to host at your home a prayer meeting or a crap game in Serbo-Croatian or Greek or Swahili, there will be no linguistic gestapo to come break up your game...
...UNITED STATES' worst bureaucracy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is at it again. Devoid of compassion and ignorant of the word mercy, this mean-spirited agency is as close as America gets to the Gestapo; it terrorizes random individuals whose "crimes" are moot and who certainly have never endangered the safety of anyone...
...recorded her anguished waiting for news of her husband, a concentration camp deportee. The diary she later published as The War records his return; he was so emaciated and weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding his dreams of owning an art bookshop. Duras does not neglect the vengeful postwar period, when Resistance members continued the battle, taking their turn at torturing and executing collaborators. No recent memoir...
...come back to the Soviet Union to rejoin the two children she had left behind in 1967. But her earlier denunciations of the Bolshevik revolution ("a fatal, tragic mistake"), her father ("a moral and spiritual monster"), the Soviet system ("profoundly corrupt") and the KGB (like "the German Gestapo") suggested that her return may have been a desperate, in a sense almost a suicidal...
...most serious clash between government forces and Solidarity supporters in more than a year. Wading into the crowd, the police began beating demonstrators as smoke flares burst and mobile water cannons spewed icy streams at the marchers. From windows above the melee, residents cursed and taunted the police. "Gestapo go home!" two elderly women shouted from the safety of their flat. Among the dozen people detained by the police was Andrzej Gwiazda, once Solidarity's vice chairman and one of the most outspoken of Poland's dissidents; he was later sentenced to three months in prison. Walesa retreated...