Word: pose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Himmler spends much time picking obscure but fanatical Nazis for his guerrilla army. Some have been planted in concentration camps, to pose as anti-Nazis when the Allies take over. Others have been given identity cards taken from ordinary Germans killed in air raids, and from 30,000 people associated with the old Weimar Republic who were recently purged. Thus equipped, the chosen Nazis can merge into the general population without detection. Hitler Youth are being trained in underground techniques in three schools known as Ordensburgen, and in a postgraduate institution called the Führer Schule, at Chiem...
...when people ask her, as many do, why with her beauty and renown she does not go back to acting, she declares: "I'm perfectly happy now. I know everybody and I'm recognized in the business world. I don't have to pose for cheesecake and I don't"-unless David O. Selznick, or Hollywood itself, be taken for one-"have to sit on elephants...
...closing of the radar training program here will pose several problems for the University typical of those which it will experience during the reconversion period, Professor Emory L. Chaffee, director of the school's staff, admitted...
...Want to Stay." Last week in Hut 2-B, the two old ladies, still abed, received American visitors, TIME Correspondent William W. Johnson and LIFE Photographer George Silk. They told their story-Victoria in perfect American, Grace with a slight accent. Would they pose for a picture? They fussed and primped, tied ribbons in their white hair, prettied their shawls, tidied their pillows, smoothed the bedcover. Flashlight bulbs popped. They blinked and giggled...
MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...