Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plane until the day she disappeared into the blue (1937), John Robert Russell was destined to be a bit out of the ordinary. His father was a religious eccentric who did not speak to his own father for 20 years, once tried to negotiate a peace with Hitler, spent a fortune attempting to develop a breed of homing budgerigars, and so hated all schools, as a result of his life at Eton, that he insisted his children be privately tutored. Young John's education was, as he himself says, "most abnormal," and instead of ending up in the army...
With the help of hindsight, successful Dictator Francisco Franco probed the failure of unsuccessful Dictator Adolf Hitler: "Hitler was an affected man. He lacked naturalness. Hitler had the soul of a gambler, and furthermore, he totally lacked knowledge of the psychology of peoples. He never understood anything about the soul of the English. He had not prepared, either completely or logically, his war. Germany had been carefully prepared, but only for a short war-not a long...
Remnants of Gallows' Humor. Only slowly did the full content of the Hitler horror dawn on the Warsaw Jews. At first it seemed that in the German victory over Poland, they would only exchange one anti-Semitic prison for another. Even when that illusion died, much wry humor remained. The Germans were "the others." An "organist" was a reliably bribed German or official. A "musical" was a man who would take an occasional bribe. "Caterpillar tanks" was the word for those refugees so heavily burdened with their belongings that they could barely crawl. Deported Jews coming into Poland wearing...
...Depression cut into the beauty business, it eventually proved a boon by getting more women out to work, making them more conscious of their appearance. In World War II Washington politicians foolishly talked of abolishing the beauty industry for the duration to save materials. But wiser heads prevailed. (When Hitler banned makeup, the women of Germany simply refused to work.) The industry put its lipsticks in cardboard containers, found substitutes for strategic materials. One substitute: a cream type of hair tonic that is outselling the older oil type today. By war's end, sales of cosmetics had increased...
...December 1944, and the Russians have driven the Germans back into Czechoslovakia. Only diehard Nazis still hope that Hitler's secret weapons will somehow turn defeat into magical victory. Czech partisans are rampant behind the German lines, settling old scores with pro-German civilians, cutting off groups of soldiers, even capturing the division commander who is trying to stem the Russian surge through the Carpathian passes...