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Word: hrer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Irving continues, the lone maniac exclusively responsible for bringing down European civilization in Götterdämmerung. This singular chronicle of World War II displays a quiet and sometimes fascinating empathy for its subject, viewing the battle maps as they looked to the Führer in his dank bunkers with their mosquitoes and their fanged names-"Werewolf," "Wolfs Lair." Irving describes Hitler's medications and mashed-apple breakfasts, and offers a little touch of comedy when a hapless secretary blunders into a war conference wearing shorts and carrying a tennis racquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just an Ordinary Man | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...assemble these thousand-plus pages of bestseller, John Toland interviewed a host of adjutants and field marshals, secretaries and doctors, even the Führer's faithful chauffeur and pilot. Perhaps partly for that reason, the book is lumpy with anecdote and short on understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sheer Bunker | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Amin's public rhetoric pushes bombast to its limits. He has praised Adolf Hitler and plans to erect a memorial to der Führer in Kampala. Constantly lecturing world leaders, Amin has (in 1973) wished Richard Nixon "a speedy recovery from the Watergate affair"; advised President Gerald Ford to choose a black as U.S. Vice President; told Arab states to "train kamikaze pilots [to] beat Israel"; and denounced Julius Nyerere, the President of neighboring Tanzania, as "a whore who spreads gonorrhea all over Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Idi Amin: The Bully of Kampala | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Rosemary's Führer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's F | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...cloning, is based on scientific fact. Because each cell in an organism contains the genetic material that gives the organism its unique characteristics, it is theoretically possible to grow an entire and identical organism from any one cell. In 1943 Mengele had the foresight to ask the Führer for blood and skin samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's F | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

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