Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...methodically hospital beds rolled in and out of the operating room. Their occupants were weak women, women who had borne weak children, women considered "enemies of the State." Ziemer also visited a home for feebleminded boys near Leipzig, was led to a small, clean, white-painted hut, known by gossip as a Hitler Kammer. There boys who were still hopelessly clumsy at age ten were put to death. In Nazi homes for prospective mothers, Ziemer found girls who were about to bear State (illegitimate) children showered with admiration, learned that German women, married or unmarried, who had fewer than four...
There are two good reasons why: 1) John Gunther has enormous prestige as a news coverer of continents (Inside Europe; Inside Asia); 2) his amassing of colorful detail is as easy to take as gossip...
There have been rumors of trouble between the army and the Nazis. They are, so far, only gossip and not backed by evidence. There have been such rumors since Hitler came to power in 1933, but if the performance of the army is any index, these rumors have all been based on wishful thinking. If and when the army revolts, turns Hitler and the Nazi gang out of the country, and offers to retire into Germany's borders then I for one will join Mr. Hooking in his present position. We ought then to consider negotiation. Charles H. Taylor, Associate...
...Peru, a lard seller in a village market refused to sell her whole pail of lard at once: if she did, she would have no excuse to stay at the market and gossip...
Buenos Aires bulged with political gossip. Most pungent rumor was that onetime President Agustin Pedro Justo was quietly readying a comeback. Many party bigwigs, already culling candidates for the national elections in 1943, derisively termed him "a political candidate in search of a party." But veteran politicos, recalling the General Justo of old, added two & two, got approximately four...