Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poor and too hungry to do much about cultivating beauty, when few German women could afford to dress well or to eat nonstarchy foods. Occasionally, beauty of a fascinating and slightly wicked kind did grow from the ruins, personified by that incomparable charmer, Marlene Dietrich. But then came the Nazis, who insisted that women's role was to keep house and bear children for the Third Reich. Pro claimed Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, head of all Nazi women's organizations: "Our weapon is the cooking spoon...
...more than three miles of tunnels underneath them. A garrulous old bum who used to spend the nights around Leverett House told an undergraduate last year that he often slept inside the Weeks Bridge where "it's warm and quiet." It seems odd that a bum and a Nazi spy should be more familiar with the Tunnel than most undergraduates, especially since the existence of the underground passages is by no means a secret, and Harvard men--at least some of them--are inquisitive. Yet, it is somehow comforting to know that within the University there are still uncharted regions...
Shortly after the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, German espionage agent entered this country, presumably on a reconaissance mission for the Nazi government. He made several contacts in Washington, then began a tour of cities along the East Coast. Intensely curious about the visitor's purposes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned one of its own agents, Robert Tonis, to follow him. The German boarded a train for Boston, and Tonis, according to plan, waited for him at South Station. But as soon as the train pulled in, the spy dashed into a taxi, sped up Memorial Drive...
...Russian Judaism is slowly dying. Three million of our brethren are in danger of disappearing, victims not of organized pogroms, but of government-sponsored discrimination and religious and cultural deprivation. This cultural genocide may lack the tangible horror of the Nazi program but, if it is allowed to continue unchecked, it will be equally effective...
Borges may baffle readers by being so many different persons in his stories and parables-an Irish revolutionary, a paralyzed Gaucho, a Nazi fanatic, the Minotaur. But all these characters relay a similar message: honor the moment, however fleeting; honor the human being, however humble...