Word: straitjacketing
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...Nazi bluster and brutality is the great German fact of RESURGENCE, the lifting up in heart and soul of a people tired of remembering their defeat in 1918, their impoverishment under inflation and the feeling ever since that Germany had ceased to be a Great Power. In unlacing this straitjacket of a national inferiority complex no Nazi has helped Adolf Hitler so much as the taut, vivid, sometimes hysterical, little man whom all Germany knows as "The Doctor," famed Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, now Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. To an amazing degree Herr Hitler and Dr. Goebbels possess...
...down Germany the question flashed last week: Had Adolf Hitler at last gone crazy? Had his nerves given way? Was he really in a straitjacket, jittering in a Bavarian asylum? He was not. Handsome Adolf was actually high in the Bavarian Alps with a few intimate friends, slowly flailing the chalky waters of mountain streams for speckled brown trout which his quiet sister boiled till blue and served on lettuce leaves for the Hitler supper. Even so the lunacy legend kept the chief Nazi pressagent, a former Manhattan print dealer named Ernst Franz Hanfstaengl, busy for two days issuing angry...
...Exchange control . . ." earnestly warned Mr. McGarrah. "forces trade into a kind of straitjacket, leaving little or no room for the play of economic forces . . that normally tend to re-establish equilibrium...
...reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest...
...appeal to the Opposition by puppet-President Ignatz Moscicki was ignored. A story gained credence that the sick Lion of Poland had fallen victim to delusions of persecution, had shot his own gardener, was raving, confined in a straitjacket...