Word: storms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes of the public would not be unjustifiably raised and a great deal of emotional stress stirred up and the emotions have a great deal to do with raising intraocular pressure. Anyone who has been practicing ophthalmology for any length of time has seen cases where an emotional storm has brought on an acute attack of glaucoma with complete loss of vision. I realize that an editor of a public journal, such as TIME, is in a rather difficult situation, but I do think that such mat ters should be submitted to some medical authority for advice before being written...
...what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning "I am a Jew. Aryans enter my shop at their own risk!" Comic were the crestfallen looks of the blond, strapping huntsmen who started beating up a swarthy little man only to have him scream "Fools! I am a Storm Troop leader from Bavaria visiting Berlin. Here is my Party card! I was a veteran of the Party when you were still rolling around in your diapers...
...brutally kicked and spat on as he lay on the side walk, a woman was bleeding, a dirty tear-stained face, a man whose head was covered with blood, hysterical women crying, men losing their temper at the police or the Storm Troopers being kicked or dragged off, women begging their men to keep out of the fight and crying and pleading...
...helping the Jew hunt along, replaced by that ruthless young huntsman Count Wolf von Helldorf. His first act was to decree that Berlin's Jewish-owned ice cream parlors which do most of their business in the evening must close at 7 p. m. Next the Storm Troops, who have recently been repressed, were again given "police duties" in Berlin to "purge the city." They swept like an avalanche over western Berlin, beating up Jews, daubing Jewish shops, slugging Jews' women. Beside each squad of Storm Troops rumbled a car bristling with Count Wolf von Helldorf...
Some thought it was engine failure. Others blamed it on lightning. The company said the pilot, trapped in a storm-swept Swiss valley, had flown through a cloud, crashed blindly into a mountainside. Whatever caused it, the Douglas airliner lay wrecked among the pine trees, its nine passengers and crew of four all dead...