Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good-sized, well-disciplined occupational force. So their cunning minds lead them to bow over backwards, knowing that this attitude will soon reassure us that these poor misled people have learned their lesson. So we will go home and live happily ever after-until another Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, or Hitler climbs onto a balcony and starts screaming...
...edition shamelessly toadied to the Nazis and Fascists-while its New York superiors were stoutly antitotalitarian. Newsmen might complain or quit, but its late editor, Laurence Hills, could always find enough reporters on the town to fill the gaps. Finally, in 1939, Hills began to write scathing frontpage, anti-Hitler editorials. Expatriate Americans were heading for home, and the Herald's 35,000 circulation plummeted to less than 10,000. On June 12, 1940, Managing Editor Eric Hawkins put out the last issue almost singlehanded as the Germans approached Paris, hopefully covered the presses and left town. The presses...
When Molotov arrived, Ribbentrop led him to Hitler, who began by saying that since Britain would soon admit defeat, it was high time the Big Four (Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan) divided the British Empire. Hitler added that as Germany and Russia had already settled their spheres of interest in eastern Europe "without friction," they should have no trouble settling bigger problems. For example, would Russia like an exit to the free, warm...
...Mister Merdeka." At the end of each speech he punches out, with clenched fists, three thunderous cheers: "Merdeka [Freedom]! Merdeka! Merdeka!" His followers roar the word, plaster it on billboards, use it as the Nazis used Heil Hitler in telephone greetings. Affectionately, they call their leader "Mister Merdeka...
Sign Language. In Cleveland, sign painter George Spence sued for divorce, complained that his wife had not spoken to him for two years, communicated with him by putting signs up all over the house. Samples: "Hands off, I paid for this." "You're Hitler...