Word: prussianized
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Cherry Ripe., Stubby, troubled Shimada, with his Prussian hairdo and his overripe cherry mouth, was not going to feel the warm smile of history. But he had worked hard to win it. No less than six times he had been assigned to the General Staff; the first five were considered successful. Between these tours of duty he had commanded a submarine division, a cruiser, the battleship Hiei, finally (in 1940 and early 1941) the Third Fleet, entrusted with blockade of the China coast toward which Nimitz now aims...
...readers with an ounce of skepticism in their systems. Or Fascist Hell? To Mises, the world started to go to the dogs in the middle of the 19th Century, with the failure in Germany of the liberal revolution of 1848. Still living in the mental climate of feudalism, the Prussian landlords who crushed the revolution could not conceive of an economic society distinct from a political organization. The Prussian attempt to merge economics and politics, to use the power of the state to enhance the competitive power of the German economic machine, naturally provoked fear in Eng land, in France...
...would have to divert supplies to them which might otherwise go to the invasion coast. Likewise, Kesselring must be prepared for amphibious landings in the north. (Berlin radio fran tically forecast that Allied troops were poised in Corsica and Sardinia for such a purpose.) In the Anzio sector, stiff Prussian Colonel General Eberhard von Mackensen planned to meet another Fifth Army attack on the Germans' flank...
Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, frosty, amoral beau ideal of Prussian militarism, is the head man. Rundstedt, no longer slim but still straight-backed at 68, is Supreme Commander of anti-invasion forces in France and the Low Countries...
George Szell is a Jewish refugee from Nazi Europe and a fervent Hitler-hater. But his outward manner suggests the average American idea of the typical Nazi. He fixes his orchestra with a thick-spectacled stare that would do credit to a cinema Prussian. Some conductors get their effects by kindness and psychological subtlety; some approach the technique of a lion tamer. George Szell is among the latter. For him the Met's lions jump through their hoops under dazzling control...