Word: karle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...left-wingers thought alike. Karl Knaths, Lyonel Feininger and Lee Gatch recognized the dominion of nature; liked bending its straight lines, straightening its curves and complicating its colors to suit their fancies...
Donald Cecil Borg (Physics), Frederick Donald De Cain (General Studies), Alfred Gilbert Harris (General Studies), Arthur Richard Hasler, Jr. (General Studies), Eliezer Krumbein (Psychology), Edward Louis Liva (General Studies), Edwin Leroy McCarty (General Studies), Marvin Julius Powell (General Studies), Peter William Rizzo (General Studies), Richard Karl Roos (General Studies), Hugh Curtis Saunders (General Studies), George Cooper Tibbetts (Physics), Earl Frank Wolfman, Jr. (General Studies), Robin Fenton Worthington (Economics...
There was not another sound as the judge intoned (in Czech first and then in German) the eight-minute-long verdict of the people of Czechoslovakia against Karl Hermann Frank, the Sudeten German leader in the prewar Czech Parliament and later the Nazi "protector." Silently the people listened to the charges: treason, the murder of 300,000 Czechs, propagation of Naziism, and "co-responsibility" for the destruction of Lidice...
Then the long review was over. Karl Frank was led to the foot of a tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...whole Czech nation," Karl Frank had once said, "there is not a person who would not hate me or be my enemy...