Word: hari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also Frau Edit von Coler. She lived at the Athene Palace, but never gave people more than a glimpse as she whisked across the lobby or drove down the Calea Victoriei in her "long grey Mercedes." Rumor said that she was Himmler's sister and a modern Mata Hari. Says the Countess Waldeck: "Mata Hari and her sisters were dumbbells in an era when bare skin was supposed to make generals lose their heads. . . . [Frau von Coler] was not Hitler's spy, but a Hitler propagandist. . . . And to make friends and influence people," adds the Countess authoritatively...
...intelligent contributions to camouflage will come from the concerted action of several branches of the University, but why should the correllation be under the obviously unqualified leadership of the Fogg? Are we to believe that they will trim their long hari, shelve their academicism and adopt the necessary experimental attitude? The exact bearing of the "color-value theory" on camouflage is almost as obscure as the motives behind the Fogg's sudden announcement. It is imperative that such a vital and, prior to Pearl Harbor; such a widely disparaged subject be put under competent direction if it is to make...
...days before Christmas, in a chill grey dawn, a German firing squad lined up on the grounds of France's fort, Vincennes. Here the French had executed famed spies Mata Hari and Bolo Pasha in World War I. But the German guns barked at no enemy spies. Executed were four German officers (two colonels, a major, one of undesignated rank). Since Dec. 1 the Germans had found it necessary to shoot 100 of their soldiers for mutiny. It would take a long time for disaffection to weaken the mighty German Army, but the spirit was spreading...
...woodpile), men like Ribbentrop took care of individual, strategic and semiconscious traitors. Ribbentrop snake-charmed the Cliveden set, with the help of Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfurst, who modestly confessed before a British court that it was she who made Munich possible. Canaris, who had worked with Mata Hari in Spain, founded Personnel Department...
...Three hundred sealed collections that may not be opened for many years. Among them: a trunk containing the records of a woman spy known only by number, but conjectured to be Mata Hari...