Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alias Mr. Brown. In May 1939, while still Premier, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar. Three-and-a-half months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Both sides solemnly swore to "refrain from every aggressive action"; the effect was that the Reich was free to attack the democracies while Russia grabbed half of Poland and the Baltic Republics: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia. Then Hitler invaded Russia. Talking before Allied diplomats, Stalin would speak to Molotov of "your treaty with Ribbentrop." Stalin startled Sir Stafford Cripps by offering to sack Molotov, if the British wished...
...Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck, of course." In 1906, following a year at the University of Edinburgh, he entered the ministry of the Lutheran Church...
Choose Thirty. They were, in fact, a company of the SS division Das Reich, commanded by 55 Major Otto Dickmann. Through an interpreter Major Dickmann now called for the mayor of Oradour...
...most Saarlanders, prosperous beyond their wildest dreams of five years ago, let their stomachs-and memories-decide. In 1935, after voting-90%-to rejoin the Reich, the Saarlanders heard Adolf Hitler promise: "In ten years' time, you won't know your city of Saarbrücken." Hitler was right: by 1945 the entire Saar basin was a heap of smoldering ruins...
Other Crimson opponents on the first team are tackle Howie Borjeson of Brown, and guard Pete Reich of Dartmouth. Tackle George Rambour, also of Dartmouth, made the second team...