Word: tigers
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...youth in Dresden, but changed keys and became a Nazi police official in 1933. He headed the Dresden office of the dreaded SS security service. During World War II he commanded an execution squad in Italy that killed 330 hostages and for his savagery won the title "The Tiger of Como...
...back Peking. As for Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, the maneuver confirmed Mao's worst fears about vacillating Kremlin leadership, leaning first to "adventurism," then to "capitulationism." Thundered Peking: "It is 100% appeasement. A Munich pure and simple. Imperialism is only a paper tiger." To which Khrushchev replied: "The paper tiger has nuclear teeth. Only a madman would speak of a new world...
...part of peasant life as drought or plague. The Italian villagers are loyal to Rome when the legions can defend them, comfortably acquiescent when the Carthaginians ride into town and offer better prices. To the fearful peasantry, Hannibal's few armored elephants loom dreadfully, like the roaming German Tiger Tanks of World...
...year breach in athletic relations, meeting on the gridiron for the first time since 1926. Back in the 'twenties there has been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud proclaiming "Come. Brother, let us root for dear old Princeton...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...