Word: mortem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which should be accustomed to madmen and murderers, the personality of Adolf Hitler still provokes terrified attention. Last week, an able post-mortem of that personality was published in the New York Times Magazine by Major H. R. Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer who had investigated the Führer's reported death...
Last week Pan-Dee died of peritonitis. A post mortem proved that the Zoo's hopes had been misplaced. Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah were a pair, not a couple...
After his tumultuous European receptions (see above), "Ike" Eisenhower invited correspondents in for a chat. For nearly an hour he stood, ramrod straight, answering all questions. Like a coach holding a post-mortem on a football game, he explained some plays, straightened out some disputed points...
...Post Mortem. How long the fleet had been held there, supporting the invasion, had become the subject of rumbling & mumbling in Washington. Homer Bigart, conscientious front-line correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist...
Doctor's Post-Mortem. Nürnberg, in whose great stadium the Nazi Party used to assemble in vain glory once a year, had been fanatically defended by Volksstürmer, remnants of the 17th SS Division, elements of 32 different Wehrmacht outfits. After five days of desperate fighting, it fell, on Hitler's 56th birthday. The town (but not the stadium) was 95% ruined. Correspondents who had followed the Allied armies across Germany all the way from Aachen said they had never seen such total destruction...