Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he lost an eye), he became a minor official in the German Ministry of the Interior. Disgusted by the weakness of the Weimar Republic, he joined the Nazis and betrayed government information to them. A specialist in constitutional law, Lammers was responsible for the legislative maze with which the Nazis surrounded their most lawless acts. He created the notorious "People's Courts," "simplified" the judicial system by drafting a decree empowering the Minister of Justice to "deviate from any existing...
...Western Germany,, the U.S., Britain and France were still thrashing about in a diplomatic and bureaucratic maze...
...average Manhattan gallerygoer will no longer jump and yell if confronted with an abstract maze or a surrealist swamp. But last week he had something to sigh with relief at: an exhibition as bright, pretty and woodenly realistic as a carrousel. The kale-green landscapes, rosy nudes and white-faced clowns all showed the hand of a contented craftsman. All bore a bold, neatly curlycued signature, Bombois, Clle...
...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...
...opening day of practice, he found a nucleus of 20 returning lettermen and strong prospects from last fall's Freshmen and Chief Boston's undefeated Jayvees. Twelve months ago he made his long awaited return from war service to Soldiers Field on a similar mission to find a maze of unfamiliar talent interspersed with a smattering of 1942 players and members of informal wartime squads, and the opening game scarcely a month away. The resulting seven wins out of nine after such a precarious start were a pleasant surprise...