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Word: hechtic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guide for the Bedevilled is written with ample hatred. Author Hecht's love for the Jews is expressed in phobic language suggestive of Nazi Julius Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aunt Chasha's Umbrella | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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