Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death stared from the cadavers of mighty buildings; the smashed, charred bones of the Reichstag (see cut); the battle-broken Chancellery, where Adolf Hitler and his paramour, Eva Braun, may have died; the ruins of the Propaganda Ministry, Foreign Office, Kroll Opera House and almost every other notable Berlin edifice...
Driven by land-and-belly hunger, Haitians often slip across the boundary of the Dominican Republic, whose dictator is "Generalissimo" Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In 1937, Trujillo's army massacred thousands of Haitian settlers, burned their bodies or tossed them into common graves.
She bangs down the curtain on much the best part of the show. Though this jive and boogie-woogie romp may have Gilbert & Sullivan spinning in their graves, they can't be spinning any faster than things do on the stage while Pinafore holds it. Thereafter the show gets...
In Europe, then desperately trying to scramble out of the ruins and the many million graves of World War I, the shy, slack-chinned, bespectacled Prince found himself constantly teetering on the brink of sacrilege. In Paris he went shopping and discovered he needed money, which imperial etiquette forbade him...
"Ruins, craters, burned-out tanks, smashed guns, tramcars riddled with holes, half-demolished trenches, heaps of spent cartridge shells, fresh graves, corpses still awaiting burial, masses of white flags, crowds of glum and hungry inhabitants lie before our eyes. . . . On Friedrichstrasse ... it is impossible to pass on foot. . . . The pavement...