Word: storme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic crisis provided Hitler not only with a strong message but also with manpower. He recruited the unemployed as his Storm Troopers, put them in brown shirts and boots and sent them out to do battle. "Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere, at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls," wrote Christopher Isherwood in The Berlin Stories, which eventually became Cabaret. "Knives were whipped out, blows were dealt with spiked rings, beer-mugs, chair-legs or leaded clubs." In September 1930 the Nazis won 6.5 million votes, and their 107 Reichstag seats made them the second strongest party...
...started the fire, but Hitler immediately made it his pretext for seizing power. He persuaded Hindenburg to sign a decree that gave the government broad powers to make arrests, search homes, confiscate property and impose "restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion." The Storm Troopers were in power now, and mass arrests began. "My mission is only to destroy and exterminate," said Goring...
...hyperactive imagination has boldly orchestrated on the global stage. It would have been enough that he engineered the defection of a Soviet nuclear submarine in The Hunt for Red October. But no, Clancy had to go fight World War III without firing a single nuclear weapon in Red Storm Rising -- and make sure that the good guys narrowly...
...other hand, Whyte contends, the heralded corporate exodus to the suburbs has produced minimal choice. "The new suburban headquarters," he declares, "say, 'By God, if those bastards from New York come and try to storm our ramparts, we'll pour boiling water on them.' " He claims these suburban offices are such lonely places that consultants have to be imported as visitors. "One guy said, 'You've missed an important point. It is true no one comes out to see us. But when we go into town, we're much more careful, and we schedule ourselves much more efficiently than otherwise...
Dealing with the gathering Watergate storm, Sawyer recalls, was "bruising, nerve-deadening torment." Her response was to devour all the information she could about the scandal. "I read all the newspapers and all the testimony and all the lawyers' briefs," she says. "I became a kind of walking computer. Even the lawyers would call me occasionally because I seemed to have everything on file." Only after the famous "smoking gun" tape, released just days before Nixon's resignation, did Sawyer become convinced that the end was inevitable. She was one of the stalwarts who rode on the plane that carried...