Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...common Nazi practice of simply segregating communities in which epidemics broke out and leaving the inhabitants to die had resulted in entire villages being wiped out by typhoid fever...
...Guilt. Last week there were fresh signs that the Germans were making no easy deals. They submitted their bill for the upkeep of their Army of Occupation: $8,000,000 a day.* When a die-hard patriot of Nantes cut the cable line into the city, the Germans slapped a $100,000 fine on Nantes...
...great Cardinal did these things, Carl J. Burckhardt's book described brilliantly this week. Carl Burckhardt is a Swiss and grandson of Historian Jakob Burckhardt, famed author of Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien. Before the Nazi Gleichschaltung, Biographer Burckhardt was League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig. To the writing of 17th-Century history he brings an unusual firsthand knowledge of 20th-century practical politics. He also brings a keen grasp of the political mind, a powerful prose style. He uses them for a kind of historical writing in which, instead of reading history, the reader seems...
...Avignon. The baffled statesman had to begin conspiring all over again. He also read books, carried on theological disputes, prayed, dreamed of a Europe of national states which he would one day create. At last he could stand the peaceful parochial life no longer, thought he was going to die, wrote out his testament. At that moment, the King called him back. Power cured Richelieu at once. He held it 18 years...
...last sonnet he had written: "How good that 'ere the winter comes, I die...