Word: repairer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then hope that out of this they will be able to consolidate their forces in their central fortress of Europe, their remote home islands in Japan, and extract from our weariness and from any divisions which might appear among us the means of making terms to enable them to repair their losses, regather their forces and open upon the world, perhaps within another decade, a war even more terrible than that through which we are now passing...
Fear. Before the war Hess was a paranoid, hoped to retire to the Bavarian Alps for rest and nerve repair. As the months of captivity passed in Scotland, he developed a persecution mania. "They" were trying to "choke me." Sometimes when he said this his hands would fly to his throat and he would stagger backward, screaming. A psychologist finally learned who "they" were: the people of Europe. Screamed Hess: "Like grass, they grow, higher and higher. They think we are evil and they hate us. The war goes on longer and they get stronger and stronger. From all over...
...Soviet Economist Eugene Varga said that Russia would demand reparations from the Axis first, before they are paid to Britain and the U.S. Besides payments in money, goods, livestock and machinery, Professor Varga said that 10,000,000 skilled German workers would be required to repair Russia's property damage...
Queueing workers complained to an Express reporter: 1) there are seldom special busses for workers from factories to distant railroad stations; 2) no extra busses for peak hours; 3) workers are not given priority over shoppers. In Liverpool, said the Express, "there is no all-night bus service; ship-repair workers sometimes have to sleep beside the job they have finished. . . . The bus queues are something more than an inconvenience to the public. They add as much as three hours every day to a working day of eight hours. ... By bringing a few hundred men from other tasks...
...repair the damage, as many of the propagandistic Annie strips as possible will be recalled, killed. Artist Gray is already at work on new ones...