Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired, taut-eyed Fuhrer and all the lesser fiihrers gathered in a Munich beer cellar to think back to the Putsch that failed just 20 years ago. They had been younger men then, with nothing to lose, and hope had flowed easily. Now Adolf Hitler said they could still hope: "The German people and its soldiers, who have not allowed any traitor chief to arise, are shaping the impregnability of the Reich. . . . The war will be fought fanatically to the end. . . . We can not reach America-but one state [presumably Britain] is in our reach and that we shall hold...
...week's end no official reply from Britain, the U.S. or Russia was disclosed. But France may have access to the tri-power European Advisory Commission to be set up in London. By agreement before and at Moscow, the Liberation Committee is to participate in the lesser Mediterranean Commission and in the settlement of Italian affairs. General de Gaulle has spoken overhastily in the past; he may have done so once again...
...became an oversized head; the rest of Austria, with less than 5,000,000 where the old Empire had over 50,000,000, was the dwarfed and sickening body. Until the coming of Hitler, Austrians mostly believed that the forbidden Anschluss with Germany would be a lesser evil, made abortive attempts to form at least a customs union...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...
...citizens hear lesser matters, too, from five microphones slung above the House's black-leather settees-an occasional barroom pun, laments upon a Representative's hangover, etc. The Speaker of the House censors all speeches for military security with a push button at his right hand. Orators can tell how they are doing by watching the colored lights above his desk. Red means "fine." White means the mike is dead...