Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolized much that was Germany. When old Paul von Hindenburg stood in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933, and handed his country over to the Nazis, he bade them rule in the spirit of Potsdam. Now the Garrison Church was ein Trümmerhaufen - a rubble heap...
...Fundamentalists are giving us one of the worst exhibitions of bitter intolerance that the churches of this country have ever seen." He proceeded to state his own Modernist position by questioning the Virgin Birth, the literal inspiration of the Scriptures, the belief that Christ will return "upon a heap of blazing clouds." He concluded: "If people must accept these interpretations or get out, then out of the Christian church would go some of the best Christian life and consecration of this generation...
...captured by the Allies was Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, 64, who piled up a great heap of German dead in his vain effort to take Moscow, and was known as Der Sterber ("The Dier"), because of his constant prating about the glory of death on the battlefield. On a roadside north of Hamburg last week British troops found Bock's body riddled by bullets, apparently from an Allied strafing plane...
When I and other correspondents reached the scene, a howling mob was struggling for place beside the heap of cadavers. Partisan guards vainly fired rifle and pistol shots into the air to keep the crowd back. We drove our jeep to the edge of the scene, I clambered atop the hood...
...Dodge brought British supplies to ELAS hospitals herself. Her woman assistant spotted a coal heap, took a taxi out and shoveled it full. Dr. Dodge got the hospital staffs to throw out the fake patients and take care of the real ones. Again she got the Greeks to clean up their hospitals-delouse, scrub, bury the dead and the refuse...