Word: hawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Haw-Haw, the humbug of Hamburg...
...Lord Haw-Haw, the humbug of Hamburg...
...accused the Royal Air Force of undertaking its German night flights to attack its No. 1 propaganda problem, but one British woman did write that she thought the R. A. F. might time its forays so as not to silence Lord Haw-Haw. Lord Haw-Haw's nightly talks are a "must" on some 50% of Great Britain's 9,000,000 licensed radio sets. He disparages British war aims, takes precise potshots at slum conditions, colonial policies, commiserates with war-discomforted Britons at home. As the Socialist Forward recently warned: "He blandly takes the British public...
...Lord Haw-Haw, the mysterious Nazi propagandist with the frozen British accent, has had more than his share of 1940 Mother Goose. When British aircraft flew over Germany one night last week, Nazi transmitters (including Lord Haw-Haw's station at Hamburg) blanked out as usual so that their waves could not be used for directional purposes by the invaders. A BBC funster gibed: "He shouts with rage and screams with fear, but pipes down when our planes are near...