Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their eminent psychologists have pointed out, few peoples suffer from such raging inferiority complexes or are so easily stung by foreign criticism as the Germans. Last week there was real pain at Hitler Youth headquarters in Berlin. Too many priests, pastors and editors abroad were concerning themselves with the pronouncement which went out last month signed by Hitler Youth Pressagent August Hoppe: "Youths, do you not feel the spirit of your fathers that aroused them to fight against that foreign doctrine?Christianity? . . . German youth! Abandon the Jewish-Christian conception of sin, pity and loving the enemy...
Amid vast relief, Herr Hitler made short work of pretending to read the scrolls. A Saar spokesman keynoted that the years since the Saar was placed under League rule have been a "pilgrimage of pain." Then the Realmleader launched into his speech...
...Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly to leave the cinema...
Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...
...with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...