Word: thors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...institu-[tions America had already built before 1800 "will not wholly wear out for thousands of years." In England, as Minister, he said that American study of Europe had convinced America that she could no more go back to her institutions than she could take up the worship of Thor. "The experiment is made," he said with calm finality, "and has completely succeeded...
...Unprecedented concentrations of very heavy, semi-mobile artillery are the newest feature of Mot pulk. Star pieces (shown in Nazi films) are two immense mortars: the Krupp-built "Thor," a 42-cm. (about 17-in.) monster, bigger than the biggest U.S. battleship gun; and a 61.5-cm. supermonster, mounted on a four-track rail truck. These presumably were the weapons which helped to pulverize Sevastopol. They were far too big for use on quickly shifting fronts such as the Don. But, if Rostov and Stalingrad fell under siege, the Russians would probably feel their weight again...
Into the White House last week marched youngish Thor Thors, Iceland diplomat. Franklin Roosevelt accepted his credentials as first Minister to the U.S. from Iceland, acknowledged an agreement to underwrite all British trade obligations to Iceland under a special Lend-Lease agreement, at an estimated cost to the U.S. of about $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. will pay dollars to Iceland for all the fish and fish oil shipped from Iceland to Britain, will treat the little democracy as a Good Neighbor...
...perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under . . . this little gang of bloodstained, money-making murderers [the Nazis]. . . . Hitler says the whole German people is behind...
...Germany he fell in with a young politician on the make, Adolf Hitler by name, and began to supply him with most of the ideas that later became Nazi gospel. He advocated a return to the pagan worship of Thor and Wotan. He wrote a long volume of gibberish called Mythology in the 20th Century, which few Nazis could decipher and fewer non-Nazis wanted to. As the editor of the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter he predicted that when Hitler came to power "Jewish bodies will hang from every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." Above...