Word: teutons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thine Own City. The great Byzantine general, Belisarius, more than once defended Rome against Teuton raids. To a barbarian chief he wrote a letter that is still timely...
...gentle kindergarten tones, British officials tried to tell this Nazi-headed Teuton some ABC's of Britain: that Britons, including titled Britons, contsidered Nazi Germany much more dangerous than Soviet Russia; that, even if the King and the Dukes desired peace with Nazi Germany, the British would never stand for it. But Hess could not believe that the "plutos" of a "pluto-democracy" would ally themselves with Communist Russia; that the leaders of a major world power like Great Britain would allow the public any say about national policy...
...Texas Co.'s picture of a fat, repulsive Teuton beside a text saying: "You've got a real, personal adversary to fight just as one of our marines who comes face to face with a Jap in the jungle. Your opponent is a 'man-in-the-street' in Berlin ... or Tokio. . . . It's you against him-your 'morale' against his. ['Morale'] means driving under 35 miles per hour-and not grousing about it. It means cutting out pleasure driving-with pleasure. It means saving fuel oil, living in a colder home...
...flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed the library again...
...from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...