Word: heils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is a mosaic of fascinating vignettes, both ghastly and ridiculous. Railway workers were allowed to abandon the otherwise mandatory Heil Hitler arm salute because it was mistaken for a signal and caused accidents. Goethe's favorite oak tree near Weimar became the central point around which the Buchenwald extermination camp was built. In one village, a neighbor told a mother that the name of her missing soldier son had been read on a list of German P.O.W.s held by the Russians. Far from being grateful, the mother thereupon denounced her well-meaning informant to the authorities for listening...
Senior Vice President Robert P. Graham "enjoyed talking about my job," but Corporate Planner John W. Heil-shorn "had a very real feeling when I walked in that I was guilty before I took the witness stand." Heilshorn found that the interviewers generally assumed that his institution is "a big, fat New York bank hoarding capital" and held "a clear bias toward centralized Government control" of private business. Says Wriston: "Most of the Nader team saw the experience as an adversary proceeding. Whatever you told them, they acted like you were trying to mislead." The investigators turned down an offer...
According to I. Milton Sacks, professor of Government at Brandeis University, the right of free speech was jeopardized by a "group so far out of the way it doesn't even support the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front." Before leaving the teach-in Friday night, Sacks chanted "Sieg Heil" at the protestors...
Before he left, however, Sacks strode to the podium and bellowed "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" through the dead microphone at the jubilant disrupters...
...friend Oswald Spengler and back to such Slavophiles as Dostoevsky and Danilevsky. Because of Reek's all-German background and community prestige, the Nazis appear to have tolerated a good deal of unsympathetic behavior from him. He invariably used the old greeting "God be praised" instead of "Heil Hitler." In 1940 he huffed out of a packed Berlin movie house during that famous newsreel in which Hitler jigs over fallen France. Even when he threw a government industrial-site surveyor off his estate, nothing happened...