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Word: nihil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attila or Genghis Khan destined to destroy it. Yet in his private life he always remained a drab petty bourgeois, who chose drab Eva Braun for his mistress, and somewhat embarrassedly concealed the fact for 15 years. Wrote Roper: "There is a somewhat macabre contrast between the revolutionary nihil ism of his doctrines . . . and the back ground of coziness and triviality from which they proceeded: teacups and cream buns, cuckoo clocks and Bavarian bric-a-brac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Attila's Cream Buns | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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