Word: pocketer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adolf Hitler gazed at the monument, then walked slowly down the avenue 200 yards to the clearing. He wore a double-breasted, grey field uniform with the Iron Cross hanging from his left breast pocket. Behind him walked the six highest officials of the German Third Reich: Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring in the blue uniform of the Air Force, his Field Marshal's baton in his right hand; Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces, his cap cocked jauntily on one side; Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch in field grey; Grand Admiral...
...convicted under this law was David Vanoni, editor of the Italian monthly La Scquilla. He was sentenced to 20 months' imprison ment by the Supreme Court for an article he printed in January criticizing Uruguay's action in connection with the scuttling of the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee (TIME...
...Ridicule of authority. "I had seen bands of young Nazis in the streets of Vienna playing all sorts of schoolboy tricks on the police, not out of mischief but on orders and for the purpose of destroying public respect for them." Nazi agents with pocket radio transmitters just strong enough to be picked up by reconnaissance planes were used to furnish the jesting German radio with luncheon menus, etc. of important Allied personages...
...Standard of Indiana, now 78% owner of Pan Am, any judgment it may pay (if judgment is not reversed on appeal) will be 78% a case of moving money from one pocket to another...
Although Germany built her famed 10,000-ton pocket battleships without using a single rivet, she kept secret her welding methods and their results. Until last week the only large all-welded U. S.-built ships were tankers. When the Exchequer steams away from her fitting-out dock, she will hold her first trial run over the U. S. Navy speed course off Guantanamo, Cuba. Reason: Navy and Maritime Commission officials are anxious to find out whether...