Word: contempts
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...Scotland, now broods his life away as a British captive. Göring has receded into obscurity, although he is still titular chief of the Luftwaffe. Many Gauleiter who used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed his contempt for Göring by impressing large clumps of air-force personnel into the SS and Volksgrenadiere. Göring is said to have taken up his old drug habit once more...
...Stockholm Morgon-Tidningen to have a new ailment: ear trouble, brought on by last July's attempted assassination. Hitler's hearing, said Stockholm, is so impaired that he can "no longer judge the sound of his words, nor can he use tones of irony or contempt, or his famous false heartiness...
...such stratagems, and by sending whole programs from a fictitious British radio station, the Germans have long been hacking away at Allied unity. British-sounding Nazi broadcasters have spoken indignantly of "Soviet contempt for Britain," of a "U.S. campaign of calumny," of "Yankee impudence." Last week one German commentator desperately got down to cases. ""Right at the beginning we must tell you," said he in his best BBC accent, "that it is a great mistake to put the cause of Allied unity above our own interest. There can be no greater error. . . . It is not necessary to make any sacrifices...
...soon after the German offensive began, hurried parts of two U.S. armored divisions-the 9th and 10th of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. In speeding trucks came almost the full strength of the 101st Airborne Division, the "Screaming Eagle" paratroops and glidermen whose toughness and contempt fot danger are legendary. Back upon Bastogne fell straggling groups from U.S. outfits that had been chewed...
...English Navy term for dumpling ... is said to have originated in the fact that the infantrymen once pipe-clayed parts of their uniforms, with the result that they became covered with a doughy mass when it rained." Alternative version: Civil War cavalrymen coined it as a term of kindly contempt for infantrymen; it referred to the doughnut-shaped brass buttons on their uniforms...