Word: swastika
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Then: "When I asked for a raise that wasn't granted, I painted my own shingle and opened my own office [at Swastika, Ont.]. My desk was a store box." She made $50,000 and learned to cuss and drink as well as any sourdough...
...Tags, Two. The speaker thrust out a brown German field cap, its peak splashed with blood, its swastika and flying eagle half-covered with mud. "Due Tedeschi morti!" he repeated, then said in English: "We catch them coming to kill my pig. No pig for them-sons of bitch! See, we have what you call dog tags...
...high time. Last week B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League* published 19 affidavits about anti-Semitic acts. Said the League: "Nearly every temple and synagogue in the Washington Heights area has been desecrated. Building walls have been marked with the swastika, and pornographically hateful descriptions of the Jews. At least two Protestant churches in the area have been similarly desecrated. . . . The assault incidents have a uniform pattern. In each case the hoodlum demands to know the religion of his intended victim. If the victim admits he is Jewish, or if the hoodlum concludes that this...
...Canada, broke. A conductor kicked him off a train at a junction called Swastika, in northern Ontario. A down-&-out Chinese was sitting there, and when Oakes said he was a gold prospector the Chinese said that if gold was all he wanted there was plenty of it all around the place. Oakes found it, staked out Lake Shore Mine. It became the second-richest gold mine in the world: by 1927 it had paid Oakes $28 million in dividends, and thereafter it yielded him approximately $3 million a year...
Suddenly a bayonet pressed against his collarbone. A huge hand gagged his terrified grunt. On the sleeve he could just make out a swastika. Thirty seconds later all hell began as bombs exploded and rifles and machine guns chattered throughout the woods. Two minutes later the firing stopped. The company began counting its losses: one lieutenant; one sentry; 13 other enlisted...