Word: juggernaut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed dragon swooping southwestward and snapping at the two smaller islands of Kyushu and Shikoku. One night last week a gentle breeze from the North Pacific was wafting across the two little islands and into the dragon's maw. At 4 o'clock the next morning a juggernaut of air hit, without warning, the frail little houses that crowd the southern tip of Japan...
Next day, with lean, fanatical Minister of Interior Wilhelm Frick at the throttle, the Hitler juggernaut moved to squash flat what remained of the German Socialist Party, most of whose leaders had already fled the Reich. Long before Chancellor Hitler came to power, Nazi Frick as Minister of Culture and Interior in Thuringia made every schoolchild in that State kneel down every day and pray "Oh God. I believe Thou punishest the traitor and blessest the Liberator of our Homeland. Free us from deceit and treason!" Last week Dr. Frick denounced the entire Socialist Party as "treasonable . . . subversive and inimical...
Living Shields, Boiling Oil. Before German Democracy could thus be downed this week, the Hitler Cabinet had to launch last week a juggernaut of super-suppressive measures & decrees for which they needed an excuse. What excuse could be better than the colossal act of arson which had just sent a $1,500,000 fire roaring through the Reichstag Building (TIME, March 6) gutting completely the brown oak Reichstag Chamber and ruining its great dome of gilded copper and glass...
They were excited and mildly surprised, but the vagabond felt that they had not yet had time to realize the full meaning of President Lowell's retirement. Time is an inexorable Juggernaut in the path of which none can stand; yet to some it seemed far too soon. There is so much that is well begun remaining yet to be finished, and the hand that sketched the outline can best wield the brush for the finishing strokes. These are the practical and trite considerations with which the Vagabond rationalizes his wish that the great man might have remained...
Brown, fresh from beating Yale, rattled off two long touchdown marches against Harvard, 14 to 0, caused Providence journalists to dig up a joke they had not used since 1926, about the old brown juggernaut...