Word: mastiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wheeler-Bennett makes plain that they did not want World War II, rightly fearing the double ruin of Germany and their caste. Ironically, Hitler ranted at them as pacifists as late as 1941 on the Eastern Front: "Before I became Chancellor, I thought the general staff was like a mastiff which had to be held tight by the collar . . . Since then ... it has consistently tried to impede every action that I have thought necessary . . . It is I who have always had to goad on this mastiff...
...long as victory smiled on Hitler's "intuitions," the mastiff barely lifted a paw against him. When a bomb was finally exploded in the Führer's presence in July 1944, he was stunned and his famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings...
...talks, he abstractly fingers a couple of worn coins. As on an old coin, the familiar face has grown a little indistinct. Heavily framed spectacles sometimes slip down to the end of the short nose; around the turned-down mouth, the once plump bull-terrier cheeks now sag mastiff-like...
...world were to be transformed into an animal kingdom, a dog fancier would have a wonderful time typecasting members of Congress. In both houses it would be easy to spot such specimens as the mournful mastiff, the excitable spitz, the busy dachshund with his close-set lawyer's eyes, the bloodhound with his air of sad preoccupation. Furthermore, there is an engaging and familiar quality about the aimless circling, the friendly tail-wagging, the snoozing and occasional fang-baring which take place on the floor...