Word: timed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month, grapevines reported mutinies among German reconnaissance crews, who refused to fly without fighter escorts (TIME...
Chapter 7: Signing Off. The Gestapo agents sent their British friends a final message on the gift set: Communication for any length of time with conceited and silly people is dull. You will understand therefore that we are giving it up. You are hereby heartily greeted by your affectionate "German opposition." THE GERMAN GESTAPO. The British operators answered: Message received. Cheerio. INMAN and WALSH...
Chapter 8: What Guilt!: Questioning of Elser began. "Examinations of him," reported Deutsche Dienst, "take no end of time. He ponders every word before he replies, and if one can observe him, one forgets what a vile animal he is. What guilt. What a horrible burden his conscience apparently is able to bear so lightly...
...manner unique in criminal history," said the officers who examined him, "he had in weeks of painstaking work built a time explosive charge into a column of the Bürgerbräu cellar whose clockwork mechanism was set at six days, or 144 hours...
...crime first was planned in September and October 1938. In August 1939, the explosive case was built in. Seven days before the demonstration in the Bürgerbräu cellar he built in an explosive charge. Six days previous to the meeting Elser attempted for the first time to introduce the clockwork mechanism into the explosive chamber. He was unsuccessful...