Word: swastika
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...city of Dirschau was under siege, and it was official: Germany had attacked its neighbor. At 10 a.m. Hitler finally emerged from his fortress. He was wearing a new suit specially tailored for the occasion; it was lighter gray than the regular army uniform, with shiny gold buttons, a swastika and the Iron Cross medal he had won in the previous World War. As more than 1 million troops flooded into Poland and began taking civilian prisoners, Hitler drove to the Reichstag to appear before the Parliament. "I myself am today, and will be from now on, nothing...
...bulbous feature that sets an opium pipe apart from an ordinary tobacco pipe. Roughly the size of a doorknob and produced in myriad shapes, the pipe bowl was a canvas on which Chinese artisans displayed their talents. Patterns on pipe bowls ranged from geometrical designs, such as the Hindu swastika (also used in Buddhist art), to whimsical portraits of Chinese roosters, tigers, dragons and phoenixes, to floral renderings of bamboos, orchids and peach blossoms. To those versed in Chinese iconography, this is rich irony: these positive attributes so artfully symbolized?longevity, strength, happiness and wealth?were all certainly lacking...
...read with interest the story (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate”, Feb. 24) on the giant snow penis structure. Where was the comment from Harvard’s administration? What if students had built a snow sculpture of a Nazi swastika or the confederate flag? As a sculpture, a snow penis can’t cause much direct harm, but it clearly serves as a powerful symbol of sexual dominance and gendered violence. Would Harvard’s administration have been so deafeningly silent if students built a sculpture that symbolized race dominance or ethnic...
Nearly 80 first-year Harvard Law School students find an anonymous flier with a swastika, profanities and anti-Semitic statements stuffed in their mailboxes...
Only slightly less reprehensible is the frightening degree of support that many on the American left give to this ludicrous allegation of Nazism against Israel. At a pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, D.C., in mid-April, numerous demonstrators held up posters juxtaposing the Star of David with a swastika, while spouting the far left-wing’s favorite buzzwords: “apartheid,” “genocide,” “holocaust,” “Nazis.” In spewing such disgraceful rhetoric, the “Blame America...