Word: kohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd gathered. Crippled Peter Back, the local Nazi leader, rode up on his motor bike. When the flyer reached the ground, Back shot him in the head, twice. Back was shouting "Shoot him! Beat him to death!" The flyer was still alive when blond, one-armed Peter Kohn, a railway worker who had been discharged from the Wehrmacht, sprang from the crowd and beat the prostrate man with a club. Matthias Gierens, a small, hard-faced crane operator in whose family there had been insanity, crushed the flyer's skull with a heavy hammer. Matthias Krein, a home guardsman...
Last week Kohn, Gierens and Krein went to trial (Back had not been found). Their counsel was a German lawyer designated by the commission.* He pleaded that Kohn's nerves had been shattered in the war and that he had fallen for Goebbels' propaganda. Gierens, said the lawyer, was insane; Krein had merely followed Back's orders...
Merit Unrewarded. Not all good books of 1944 won the public they deserved. Friedrich A. Hayek's brilliant exposition of the perils of collectivism, The Road to Serfdom, Hans Kohn's timely historical study, Idea of Nationalism, and Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal's profound analysis of the U.S. Negro problem, An American Dilemma, won high critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath...
Incompatibility. In Detroit, Mrs. Marie Kohn, suing for divorce, declared that her husband Hassin, a professional fortuneteller, would give her no mystic love philters, declined to look into the crystal ball to solve their problems, refused to read or even hold her hand...
...tattooed man is one and a half times as likely to be rejected by the U.S. armed forces as an unillustrated man. He is one and a half times as likely to be a psychiatric rejection. This conclusion was forced upon Captain Joseph Lander and Corporal Harold M. Kohn as a result of thousands of psychiatric examinations of recruits. The two Army examiners, who report their findings in the American Journal of Psychiatry, also conclude that...