Word: hatefulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...
...Singing. The Germans hated all the occupiers and wished they would leave -but they did not hate them all equally. The downy-cheeked American boys who whistled at the fraüleins were a nuisance; but the Russians were a terror. To mark the difference in the way they felt, the Munich police gave a party last week to say a somewhat fearful farewell to U.S. Brigadier General Walter J. Muller. Forty cops sang The Beautiful Blue Danube for him. Many Germans fear that the U.S. will forget the Danube, the Rhine and the Oder-especially the Oder, where...
...another Dalton tax measure, allowing only half the money spent on advertising to be deducted as business expenses in computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that...
...excused himself for a minute and went out to shiver in the cold air. The music was fainter, but still you could hear it from the upstairs window. I hate dancing, Vag thought and thought over and over. Do girls really like it? Oh, here she was she followed you. What's the matter, Vag dear! Why do you run away from me! Do you want me to go home I will I'll go home we're neither of us having a good time, darling. Yes, said Vag aloud, then yes yes yes yes to himself I want...
...Totalitarianism is unable to solve the problems that face the world," declared R. H. Markham, former foreign correspondent for the "Christian Science Monitor," to an audience at International House last night. "Instead of remedying the crisis by a selfless devotion, it complicates the problem with hate and increased corruption...