Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Flat as a pfennig has fallen the neo-pagan celebration of the Nordic Yule at the winter solstice, sponsored by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg and other extremist Nazis as a substitute for Christmas. Not since the Reformation has Christian feeling in the Reich been more intense. This Christmastide will see millions of Germans quietly celebrating a Christian Christmas. Protestants and Catholics alike will sing that best-beloved of all carols, Silent Night, in the fervent hope that the silent night will be followed by the dawn...
Sour-faced Premier General Ion ('"Red Dog") Antonescu and Vice Premier and Iron Guard Leader Horia Sima spoke of "severe measures" to punish the extremist Green Shirts, but their words were scarcely in print when blood lust rushed through the whole disaster-sickened country. Onetime Premier Professor Nicolas lorga, tutor of King Carol and eminent historian, "the teacher of the nation," was found dead on the outskirts of the oil fields near his country home at Valeni-de-Munte. George Bratianu, scion of the dynasty which secured Rumania its independence, kept it going through World War I, was reported...
Colonel Hashimoto is an extremist's cynosure: he is tough, aggressive, cruel, tenacious, mystical. He loves action, and he acts by instinct. His body and mind are as hard as steel but also as sensitive as an ack-ack predictor. He learned the technique of revolution as a Japanese military attaché by watching Russian barricades in 1917. By 1931, he commanded a heavy-artillery unit in Manchuria, and was one of those responsible for the Manchurian incident of that year. Five years later he was one of the plotters in the bloody "February Revolt," in which many Government...
Everybody Satisfied. Only two M.P.s spoke against the Emergency Powers Defense Bill, extremist Laborite David Kirkwood and Communist William Gallacher, who called it "deliberate attempt on the part of the ruling class to conquer the working class." Cracked back orthodox Laborite David Gilbert Logan at Red Willie, "It is about time that a voice like yours was silenced under Emergency Powers." Liberal Sir Richard Acland said he specifically hoped to see the Government "sending to the homes of people like myself and taking away valuable picture's, such as portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and other Old Masters...
...pleasantly. "I speak with feeling, being one of them!" When Health's Horsbrugh ventured to say that many females of from 60 to 65 are "tired women," Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill shrilled earnestly: "What about men?" Laborite Andrew McLaren cracked: "Men are tired all their lives!" Sneered truculent extremist Laborite David Kirkwood: "I don't think I ever heard a better example of Her Master's Voice...