Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opposite you," he told the airmen, "is an enemy whose central power is crumbling. . . . Think how you would feel if there were a revolution at home and they were shooting at cabinet ministers. . . . There are grave signs of weakness in Germany . . . and none can measure the extent...
East or West? This kind of glum reporting presumably reflected the mood of the German General Staff, faced with the painful necessity of giving priority either to the east or the west-there was no longer enough German strength to give all out defense to both. Despite the grave threat along the Russian front, indications last week were that priority of a sort had been awarded to the West...
Russians revere the memory of their great nineteenth-century poet, Alexander Pushkin. Last week, to their tally of Nazi crimes was added confirmation of what the retreating Germans had done to the Pushkin shrine at the Sviatogor Monastery. The poet's grave was desecrated, relics were stolen, manuscripts were used as fuel. The monastery itself was bombed. Cried one Russian...
Questioning hundreds of victims, Fritchey came across the name of a sucker named "Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
...After Ribbentrop had finished with the Finns, he called a meeting of Germans in authoritative posts in Helsinki. Present were the Minister to Finland, Wipert von Blücher, the Gestapo chief and several other responsible officials. The grave-faced, pouch-eyed ex-champagne salesman spoke for an hour on Germany's international situation. She had lost the war, but could and would win the peace, he said...