Word: muss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speeches, no previously formulated accusations. Herr Hitler's first words about the Reichstag fire were stagy, forced, phony: "Das ist das Werk der Kommunisten." (This is the work of Communists.) This time his first statement was spontaneous, slangy, more relief than calculated vindictiveness: "Glück muss der Mensch haben." (A fellow has got to be lucky...
...MUSS: Provided it's passed...
...first time within the memory of the oldest grizzled inhabitant, that's the long eared man in the Square, successful Freshman football candidates will muss up the greensward of the Stadium in a real game when they meet Brown on October 30 while the Varsity is at Princeton...
...from Greenwich Village, Novelist-Poet Maxwell Bodenheim (Georgia May, Ninth Avenue, Naked on Roller Skates) marched to a downtown Manhattan relief agency. At the door the five followers deployed, picketed, raised their placards: "Starvation Standards of Home Relief Make Real Ghost Writers." Real Ghost Writer Bodenheim, pale, unshaven and muss-haired, stormed inside, announced that he was "on the brink of starvation." He had applied for relief six weeks before, but none had come and his landlord had evicted him. He pointed to his threadbare clothes, dirty shirt, unlaced boots. Said he: "All I ask is enough for three meals...
...When you meet men like Strauss, don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Men like him should be mussed up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar! Instead, he looks as if he had just got out of a barber's chair. I want you to understand you will be supported, no matter what you do, just so you are justified. Make it disagreeable for these men. make them leave the city, make them afraid of arrest! Don't treat them lightly...