Word: traced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When to Shift. When the British occupied Lower Saxony, Schlüter presented himself as a victim who had suffered for his trace of Jewish blood, got a job as a high-ranking police officer in the Göttingen Allied Military Government. He proved a tough cop, efficient at rounding up local Nazis, but just as rough on others, too. But when his administration was involved in accusations of bribery, embezzlement and maltreatment, the British fired...
Nailing Up Heads. Like most of the Roman ruling class, Caius Julius Caesar was a somebody at birth. He liked to trace the family tree right to Rome's legendary founder Romulus, and even claimed kinship with Mars and Venus...
...operation was a pilot program to see if the method would work. This summer the Authority engineers will dose the river more liberally to trace the travels of its silt. Meanwhile, the Hydraulic Research Establishment is trying radioactive scandium-glass on Britain's beaches to find out how they get eroded away...
Every highbrow worth his martini nowadays has enough psychoanalytical know-how to trace his best friend's fallen arches back to infantile stresses and strains or to see homicidal tendencies merely as the mask of a basically shy, reticent character. Now, thanks to the appearance of this book, any lowbrow can also learn to take the first fumbling steps towards a total misunderstanding of human nature...
World War II has left behind it no trace of either the gaieties or the grim, radical dogma that swept Britain after World War I. Youth today is not so much flaming to be free as burning to acquire discipline. It was Wyndham Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...