Word: pogrom
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...made to wolf a fat goose in a restaurant scene, while at the next table a lean Nazi couple divided a herring. These features of the original film caused cool heads in the Nazi hierarchy to fear that, if released throughout Germany, it would incite a nation-wide pogrom. Besides, who was young Horst Wessel anyway...
...this crime is kidnapping, (to nab a kid) and not "kidnaping" (perhaps to grab a child by the nape of the neck). We feel very incensed about this, and live in mortal fear of the day when the newspapers, not content to leave the extra "me" in program or pogrom, knock superfluous words from the names of the great. Picture to yourself such a headline, "Presidents Rosevelt, Hover, Lowel, Angel, and Con'nt confer with orators Ramsey M'Donald, Graham M'Namee...
...Institute for Physical & Electrical Chemistry in Berlin. He invented the important synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia which supplied Germany with explosives and fertilizers during the War. Like Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein, Laureates Haber and Franck resigned their German jobs to avoid Adolf Hitler's white pogrom...
...citizens are apt to forget that even at the end of the Revolutionary War nearly one-third of the population of the 13 States was still loyal to King & Country and, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they...
...Harvard Lampoon will be given the air at 7.45 o'clock Saturday night over Station WBZ for a 15-minute pogrom of humorous jokes and music. C. J. Swan, president of the Boston Advertising Club, will be the master of ceremonies, and C. T. (Jerry) Smith, Jr., young Boston lawyer, will tell very many of his droll stories in his own way. Two trios and one quarto, all composed of ten Harvard undergraduates, will sing over...