Word: heard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poppa Loeffler pined for the old country. For years his neighbors had heard him talk about going back. There were no jobs for his two strapping boys in Watertown, Wis., and Herr Hitler's own agent in Milwaukee had told him about the glorious opportunities in the new Nazi Fatherland. One fine day last spring, with 150 other Wisconsin families, the Loefflers picked up and went. The Fatherland paid all the passage money, every pfennig...
...Eric and Erwin did not much like the Nazi doctrines preached at them by an uncle: they sounded somehow different from what they had heard in Wisconsin. Then one day the order came to report for the labor corps on October...
Oldtimers on the north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it came from the Battle of Jutland (Germans call it the Battle of the Skagerrak...
Last week inhabitants of Laesö island (see map), east of Denmark's northern tip, again heard heavy gun-thunder. They counted at least 200 shots and old-timers said it surely must be another great sea battle. Firing sounded either deep in the Skagerrak where a line of British destroyers had been reported, or farther east on the Kattegat. The police chief of Laesö Island said he saw, through field glasses from a high hill, a thin line of ships in the northeast. Two reporters ventured out in a fast motorboat but found nothing...
Anna is in a cot beside her, humbly dying of tuberculosis. Dr. Ditten performed the operation that saved Emmy's life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...