Word: junker
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...Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother-a sensible old lady who refused to live with...
...based entirely on her possession after the aggression of 1920, is inextricably tied up with her internal political conflict which involves a more liberal element under General Sikorski disputing the Polish leadership with a powerful group which represents the old landlord-nobility-military coterie of pre-war days. This Junker-like school of Polish political thought, which had control in Warsaw under Mr. Josef Beck before the German invasion, has been termed Fascist-minded by the Soviet government, and is the Polish faction which is causing the Kremlin the most worry...
Last week the official Berlin radio confirmed the report that Haider had been replaced and identified his successor: non-Junker, 47-year-old General Kurt Zeitzler, long a friend and protege of the Gestapo's Heinrich Himmler, for whom the Army Prussians have no love. Gustav Siegfried Eins, still broadcasting reports which would normally bring quick extermination to any station in Germany, growled that General Haider was "confined" at his home...
This time it was Russia. Now Leeb took the left, assailed Leningrad. Bock took the center, headed for Moscow. Rundstedt took the right and headed for Rostov. This time, in a campaign against which the Junker clique was reported to have fought and been overruled, the trio failed...
...failure they could tell themselves, for whatever it was worth to their professional pride, that they had done a superb job of soldiering. It was just that Hitler had asked for too much before snow fell. All of them, and many another Junker, went out in the period of midwinter madness when Hitler himself took over the command...