Word: flicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer varies. For those who "are strong in the faith," he has a smile and words of encouragement. "We shall win the elections with God's help-it's Christ against Mammon." But encountering one whose faith he judges to be wavering, Don Francesco, with a flick of a powerful wrist, lowers the umbrella on the miscreant's head. "You didn't come to the theater last night, Nicola," he says, or "Agata, your girl hasn't learned her lines...
...began to drift off the dirt-floored circle; the chanting bets still continued. "I'll bet a hundred" or "A hundred to eighty." The usual bet was $100. The big ones-$1,000 and up-were made more quietly, by a whisper, a nod, a flick of a finger. On the wall was a sign saying "No Profanity Allowed." There was none. In the audience, one woman fed a baby from a bottle...
This auditorium is probably the most modernistic lecture hall in the University. Windows are all closed off, so a flick of a switch can darken the room for slides or movies. A tile floor, twenty fluorescent fixtures and a curved platform add to the modernistic atmosphere...
...master of prewar Germany's largest privately owned coal, iron and steel empire, Friedrich Flick was "the greatest single power behind the Nazi war machine." At Nurnberg last week, haggard, white-haired Friedrich Flick, 64, became the first German businessman convicted by the U.S. war crimes tribunal. For exploiting slave labor, looting industries in occupied countries and collaborating with Himmler's SS, he got seven years...
...sentence might have been stiffer if Flick and associates had not risked trouble with the Nazis by feeding, housing and clothing, their slave laborers better than the law decreed. Presiding Judge Charles B. Sears of Buffalo, N.Y., also found "some shade of justification" in Flick's plea that German industry itself was being persecuted in his person. As for the $40,000 yearly payments to the Nazi Party, Judge Sears said it was perhaps "not too high a premium to insure personal safety in the fearful days of the Third Reich...