Word: astonishment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goebbels' ascendancy did not astonish those who know him and Germany. He has been portrayed to the world as a jack-rabbity little mouthpiece for Adolf Hitler. Actually, he is smart. He has a kind of courage. He understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
Over & over, in the context of world war, these essays shift from an easy equability to the sort of fierceness with which gentle men sometimes astonish bullies...
Reasons for the upsurge in neckwear are twofold : 1) to retrim last year's dresses, and to trick up this year's limited wardrobe, 2) to allure and astonish men, who are anciently susceptible to a frill at the throat. To make one costume seem like many, women are buying in vast quantities dickies, jabots, fichus, gilets, ruches, berthas, bibs, piccadillies, collets, modesties and ruffs...
...Turkish press, long held in check, assumed a sudden truculence. "If we are forced to choose between fighting like lions or being driven like sheep ... we shall not hesitate to give an example of virile courage that will astonish the world," wrote the Government organ Ulus. "The boasted equality . . . means nothing but equality in slavery under Germany and Italy," scoffed Yeni Sabah...