Word: hessians
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...Around the case of a Hessian wolf-boy, French Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau wove his romantic theories on the virtues of "natural" man, thus helped to set off the American and French Revolutions. Thereafter stories of wild children became suspect as radical political propaganda...
Still standing is David Dove's Germantown house. In the belfry of Germantown School's main building still hangs the original school bell; above it still swings a weather vane with three bullet marks from Hessian muskets. But 177 years have softened the memory of old Schoolmaster Dove, and last week Germantown Academy proudly unveiled a newly acquired portrait of its scheming, irascible, sarcastic founder...
...Ignorant of American history, Herr Hitler overlooked the Hessian mercenaries whom George Washington routed in the Battle of Trenton...
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...surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies emerged unscathed from their underground puparia. Millions of Mormon crickets came safely through in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming. Montana. Bitter cold in the East caused high mortality among some destructive insects, but the Japanese beetle was protected by heavy snows and promised to be dangerous. Special funds allocated this year...