Word: protectorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler snuggled as snugly as he could into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...
...Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, a gift of U.S. Czechs. Flowers were often strewn at its base by ardent Czechs in tribute to President Wilson's part in founding the CzechoSlovak Republic. Last week it was carted away by order of Adolf Hitler's blood-drenched chief executioner, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich of Bohemia-Moravia...
...just stand there and maybe grab my hand and cry. ... I tried to put all those things in Dumbo." Tough little Timothy Q. (for nothing) Mouse, Dumbo's wise-guy protector, was sired in much the same way by impish Artist Fred Moore. Says he: "The greatest problem with Timothy was not to make him too cute. We had to get a tough guy with a big heart. ... I just played around with him . . . had him walk a couple of dozen steps in 12 frames, then in eight . . . until I got just the right cockiness to it. ... When...
Hazard. In South Bend, Wash., the local game protector reported elk were crowding the highways, bumming cigarets from autoists. He explained the elk were not smokers, but chawers...
...Reinhard Heydrich, Reich's Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, whom the Czechs think of as Reznik (Butcher), last week ordered the execution of five butchers accused of the "illegal sale" of hogs, cattle and other animals...