Word: nez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was sunbathing when the revolt began. But he was not caught entirely off guard. His pervasive Gestapo had jailed opposition leaders and other citizens who objected a few weeks ago when he prolonged his tenure until 1949 and tightened his already arbitrary rule...
...that was not the day. The firing had started when British watchers discovered a convoy of German ships trying to ghost northward through the English Channel, hugging the coast at Cape Gris-Nez. Two hundred shells were fired. One large enemy merchant vessel was sunk, another was hard hit. From this German willingness to risk ships in the Channel shooting gallery, Allied commanders judged that the steady air pounding of French railroads and communications must be snarling normal overland supply lines behind the Invasion Coast...
...Crown Is Mine." "Melpomene and Thalia have been surpassed," cried the Romantics when Dumas' play Henri III was first presented. Pandemonium broke loose. The audience "stood up, as if seized with madness." "The crown is mine," cried Dumas, and bought himself chromatic waistcoats and a pince-nez dangling from a black ribbon...
...high collar at his throat, his white hair like a halo around his balding old head, white sideburns creeping down his pink cheeks. Grover Cleveland leans back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait can obscure...
Himmler has almost never been seen in civilian clothes ; he prefers SS uniforms. A U.S. reporter who saw him during one of his few appearances in mufti says: "He looked like a professor of agriculture in a Midwest University." He has brief, skinny hair. His pince-nez rimless glasses give his somber blue eyes the precise squint of the clerk of a small-town council who secretly believes he will some day be mayor. He shaves twice daily yet never seems clean-shaven. His jowls flab down to a murderous little chin; the mustache is a respectful miniature of Hitler...