Word: prussian
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Bound and writhing, Prussian Agent von Bork glared at his disguised captor and snarled...
...beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors is so crammed to the brim with lurid scenes and dated dramaturgy that there is a strange air about it of the Franco-Prussian...
...ruled by this static idea will turn its back on progress and become socially reactionary. The Germans have twice let it lead them into aggressive war, although they, of all people, should have known better. One of their great historic achievements was to "stretch" the sandy acres of the Prussian plain, by good farming. As a result of good farming practices and highly skilled industry, Germany had the highest living standard of Continental Europe. Yet, obsessed by slice-of-cake thinking, it set out to conquer more "biotic potential...
Died. Field Marshal Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, 67, onetime commander in chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...
...world can only distort the Cadet's outlook to the point of uselessness, as far as dealing with ordinary mortals is concerned. Many men who served in the last war came away with the feeling that West Pointer's were little more than a modern-day version of the Prussian military caste, unadaptable to circumstances and unable to deal with personnel...