Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minutes, Hitler stood beside his SS chauffeur in his special Mercedes-Benz, engulfed in the frightening adoration that he ignited. Hitler's car moved slowly; his bodyguards in other vehicles patrolled at the sides, automatic weapons laid out on the car floors. The bareheaded Hitler, so ordinary a man in himself, seemed transformed. "The nonchalant flip of the hand and a faint smile acknowledged the tributes," Helms recalls. "Even little children spontaneously shot out their arms." The bright sun glanced off the red Nazi flags hanging everywhere...
That morning Helms and a few other foreign correspondents had watched from the stands as Hitler marched to somber, rolling drums through 200,000 uniformed followers. "The wonder of this age is that you have found me -- an unknown man among millions!" Hitler shouted...
...then we will make them respect it involuntarily." Toward that end, lawmakers might get useful guidance from the Alien and Sedition Acts. Passed in 1798, they were enforced in a way that made a crime of any idea, opinion, remark or act a judge disapproved of. One New Jersey man was arrested and fined $100 for saying he did not care if somebody fired a cannon up the President's arse...
...June morning in 1919, a Bavarian professor stopped to watch a 30-year- old corporal haranguing a group of students. "I had the peculiar feeling," the professor recalled, "that the man was feeding on the excitement that he himself had whipped up. I saw a pale, thin face and hair hanging down the forehead in unmilitary fashion. He had a close-cropped mustache, and his strikingly large, pale blue eyes shone with a cold fanatical light...
...onetime friend turned archrival Roger Douglas, as his ruling Labour Party demanded? Lange's answer last week stunned the nation. "I intend to step down," said Lange, who cited his health as the reason for his resignation. But most political observers believe Lange quit rather than work with a man he had forced out of the Cabinet only last December for pushing economic reforms too far. Ironically, both will serve in the government of the new Prime Minister, Geoffrey Palmer, where Lange has accepted the post of Attorney General...