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  • …because you'd miss cheerleading practice, and then she said she didn't see why I didn't go to Disneyworld since I'm not even that involved in extracurricular activities, and then Lilly started in about the Disneyfication of America and how Walt Disney was actually a fascist, and then everybody started wondering if it was really true about his body being cryogenically frozen under the castle in Anaheim, and then Mr. Gianini was like, could we please return to the Cartesian plane?†   (source)
  • "This place is a fascist snake pit," said Lisa.†   (source)
  • Crypto-fascism in Australia in Kangaroo (1923).†   (source)
  • They said that's what happens when you let yourself get used by fascist pigs.†   (source)
  • One after another, the leading ideologies of modern Europe — industrialism, fascism, communism, consumerism — have passed through Plauen and left their mark.†   (source)
  • They were all Hitler majors, members of the only class I still taught, Advanced Nazism, three hours a week, restricted to qualified seniors, a course of study designed to cultivate historical perspective, theoretical rigor and mature insight into the continuing mass appeal of fascist tyranny, with special emphasis on parades, rallies and uniforms, three credits, written reports.†   (source)
  • He wasn't a Fascist.†   (source)
  • Like a fascist organization or something.†   (source)
  • And as for the British Union of Fascists, I can only say that any talk linking his lordship to such people is quite ridiculous.†   (source)
  • In this war those people were the Ukrainian and Lithuanian Fascists.†   (source)
  • It was quite clear that the brothers all joined Per Engdahl's fascist movement, The New Sweden.†   (source)
  • Vorster also championed the Sabotage Act of June 1962, which allowed for house arrests and more stringent bannings not subject to challenge in the court, restricting the liberties of citizens to those in the most extreme fascist dictatorships.†   (source)
  • He had convinced himself that trashing the Trentons' house had not been an act of half-mad jealous pique but a piece of revolutionary anarchy — offing a couple of fat middle-class pigs, the sort who made it easy for the fascist overlords to remain in power by blindly paying their taxes and their telephone bills.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure whether he's serious or whether he's just trying to keep the seniors in line, but there is no way I'm letting some fascist teacher ruin my chances of getting into BU.†   (source)
  • Those were good days, he told himself, dodging bombs from the German Stukas and the more random artillery fire with which the Fascists had tried to interdict his squadron…Like most men he was unable to remember the stark terror of combat.†   (source)
  • This fight is every bit as significant as the struggles against the fascism of the Third Reich and the murderous communism of the Soviet Union.†   (source)
  • She's already started her fascist regime by saying she has been told that some girls were not wearing their berets as they arrived at school.†   (source)
  • Alba wondered where so many Fascists had come from overnight, because in the country's long democratic history they had not been particularly noticeable, except for a few who got carried away during World War II and thought it amusing to parade in black shirts with their arms raised in salute—to the laughter and hissing of bystanders—and had never won any important role in the life of the country.†   (source)
  • Just when I was all set to really start stashing it away, they had to manufacture fascism and start a war horrible enough to affect even me.†   (source)
  • She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.†   (source)
  • Bachelli was lost in the memory of boarding his troop ship in Naples in 1934; he was a young officer again in the 230th Legion of the National Fascist Militia, off to fight for Il Duce, off to capture Abyssinia, off to expunge the shame of being defeated at the battle of Adowa by Emperor Menelik in 1896.†   (source)
  • Musta heard all those scurrilous rumors circulated by the fascist press.†   (source)
  • He uses the techniques of the Fascists.†   (source)
  • But, as he was eating, he had no choice but to listen to some fascists who had come down from Milan.†   (source)
  • Fascists!†   (source)
  • Even if we have learned to be rightly and deeply fearful of elevating the cultural forms and conservatisms of any nation into normative and exclusivist systems, even if we have terrible proof that pride in an ethnic and religious heritage can quickly degrade into the fascistic, our vigilance on that score should not displace our love and trust in the good of the indigenous per se.†   (source)
  • GUIL: (Fascist.†   (source)
  • Fanatics, Fascists.†   (source)
  • He understood the distinction between fascism and communism, subjects on which I was utterly ignorant.†   (source)
  • I dwelt amidst the fascists and the flag-wavers in relative obscurity and I liked the students, who daily trooped into my class chewing gum and popping pimples.†   (source)
  • So they play that on their fascist banjos, eh?†   (source)
  • With a hundred thousand demoralized colons returning from Algeria he reckoned fascism was in the cards.†   (source)
  • The organized campaign of your clique to cut down Guild Taxation and appropriations for the education of Espers and the dissemination of Esper training to mankind is conceived in a spirit of treachery and fascism.†   (source)
  • She compares terrorists to fascists, saying they have the same will for power and disdain for individual liberty and worth.
  • The people are fighting the Fascists in many places — even the army has joined the fight.†   (source)
  • I'll baptize you with sherry from bloody Catholic fascist Spain.†   (source)
  • It's fascist, the way you deal with them," Chacko said.†   (source)
  • But God, these days, it's like living in a fascist dictatorship."†   (source)
  • They worked for a Mafia leader, Arkan, who was running some sort of private fascist militia.†   (source)
  • "And I don't know, it just strikes me as a little fascist to take all that away."†   (source)
  • 'Must'a' heard all those unfounded rumours circulated by the Fascist press.†   (source)
  • I was a fascist when Mussolini was on top, and I am an anti-fascist now that he has been deposed.†   (source)
  • It's a legal outlet for your secret fascist longings.†   (source)
  • How would that look to these barbarians who see a fascist criminal in every white face?†   (source)
  • Of course we had heard about the Fascist, but they were still just an abstraction to us.†   (source)
  • The universities were in lock-step with fascism.†   (source)
  • The Budapest radio announced that the Fascist party had come into power.†   (source)
  • It was like seditious and insidious too, and like socialist, suspicious, fascist and Communist.†   (source)
  • The Fascists are attacking Jewish shops and synagogues.†   (source)
  • Fiedler was shot and Mundt was saved, mercifully delivered from a fascist plot.†   (source)
  • 'Oh yes, you mean the Fascist professor from Cracow.†   (source)
  • It looked like something from a fascist funeral.†   (source)
  • He joined, a few years later, the Swedish Fascist Battle Organisation, the SFBO, and there he got to know Per Engdahl and others who would be the disgrace of the nation.†   (source)
  • Since the overthrow of the Fascist government in Italy the country is nothing to us but a theatre of war outside the borders of the Reich, where . fighting is still going on, for the moment.†   (source)
  • Ezra Pound's politics, for instance, a mixture of anti-Semitism and authoritarianism that made Italian fascism congenial to him, are repugnant to any thinking person, and to the extent that they find expression in his poetry, they destroy everything they touch.†   (source)
  • I've been called a communist and a socialist, a "dunce," a "health fascist," an "economics ignoramus," a "banjo-strumming performer at Farm Aid," a "hectoring nanny of the nanny state," and much stronger epithets.†   (source)
  • It needs to be said too what salacious nonsense it is to claim that Lord Darlington was anti-Semitic, or that he had close association with organizations like the British Union of Fascists.†   (source)
  • You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.†   (source)
  • Italy has banned the Fascist Party.†   (source)
  • It is the machine that kills fascists.†   (source)
  • Harald continued to be a member until Engdahl died in the nineties, and for certain periods he was one of the key contributors to the hibernating Swedish fascist movement.†   (source)
  • KILLS FASCISTS.†   (source)
  • He got fascist haircuts done by Spadavecchia of Milan—his school actually, since Gianni was frequently overbooked.†   (source)
  • They made us memorize and puke up more facts, write more useless essays according to a fascist essay formula and, above all, take tests to prepare for taking even more tests.†   (source)
  • Some argue that the rise of Hitler—and Fascism—can be blamed for the return, in the 1930s, to longer skirt lengths and the restrictively tight waistline, sending women into corsets once again.†   (source)
  • He mobilized the American people and the world, going into battle, bringing hundreds and thousands of valiant and brave soldiers in America to fight fascism, to fight dictatorship, to fight Hitler.†   (source)
  • Everywhere the fascists changed them.†   (source)
  • "Fascist?" she echoed.†   (source)
  • He had faced combat for the first time on the fourth day of the Great Patriotic War, as the Fascist invaders were driving east.†   (source)
  • That is the sign of someone who is obliged to put their hand up because that is the fascist way, but isn't really putting their hand up.†   (source)
  • The ANC asserted over and over that the government was fascistic and racist and that there was nothing to talk about until they unbanned the ANC, unconditionally released all political prisoners, and removed the troops from the townships.†   (source)
  • Since opinions vary, there are various kitsches: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Communist, Fascist, democratic, feminist, European, American, national, international.†   (source)
  • And now we want to be like the fascists, and they want to take what's not so terrible about us Communists and spread a little money around-which doesn't really work, but it's a nice thought.†   (source)
  • These three men who hated him spoke his language and wore his uniform, but he saw their loveless faces set immutably into cramped, mean lines of hostility and understood instantly that nowhere in the world, not in all the fascist tanks or planes or submarines, not in the bunkers behind the machine guns or mortars or behind the blowing flame throwers, not even among all the expert gunners of the crack Hermann Goering Antiaircraft Division or among the grisly connivers in all the beer…†   (source)
  • I thought that, with fascism, we were certain to have another war, and, thus, I had an overwhelming desire to get rid of him.†   (source)
  • He hadn't read the newspaper and didn't feel qualified to join the continual debates about communism, Leninism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, and syndicalism.†   (source)
  • Still, I had to publish abroad, because the books were not written in the spirit of fascism and did not make obeisance to the themes and principles according to which one was deemed, or not deemed, acceptable.†   (source)
  • Alessandro feared that the fascists would flirt with the Left, that, rather than destroy one another, they would combine, but he could not see it happening for at least five or ten years-the country was too exhausted.†   (source)
  • On Lombard Street and in Belleville the great menace of the 193os was the Depression, not fascism or communism.†   (source)
  • The fierce political passions of the mos, the clash of ideas about communism,fascism, socialism, were very remote from the gray depths we inhabited.†   (source)
  • Sophie eventually saw that only a few years before, during Poland's Fascist resurgence, her father might have gained some converts; now with the Wehrmacht edging ponderously eastward, these Teutonic screams for Gdansk, the Germans provoking incidents along all the borders, how could it be other than a sublime foolishness to ask whether National Socialism had the answer to anything except Polish destruction?†   (source)
  • Thus he killed in the name of the people to protect his fascist treachery and advance his own career within our Service.†   (source)
  • Joining a rejuvenated Fascist group known as the National Radical party, which began to exert commanding sway among the students of the Polish universities, the Professor—now a dominant voice—advised temperance, once more cautioning against the wave of clubbings and muggings which had begun to beset the Jews, not only in the universities but in the streets.†   (source)
  • Both of us were imprisoned and both of us …. invited, under extreme duress, to confess that this whole terrible charge was a fascist plot against a loyal Comrade.†   (source)
  • Each selected comrade will spend three weeks attending Branch discussions, studying progress in industry and social welfare and seeing at first-hand the evidence of fascist provocation by the West.†   (source)
  • Having completed his probationary period he undertook special tasks in Scandinavian countries—notably Norway, Sweden and Finland—where he succeeded in establishing an intelligence network which carried the battle against fascist agitators into the enemy's camp.†   (source)
  • The word FASCISM has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable."†   (source)
  • Fascism's the danger, the danger now to all people.†   (source)
  • Since you don't know what Fascism is, how can you struggle against Fascism?†   (source)
  • He painted a horrible but masterful picture of Fascism's aggression in Germany, Italy, and Japan.†   (source)
  • No. It was a Fascist Patrol coming home.†   (source)
  • All day the fascists have been fighting among themselves near Segovia.†   (source)
  • We've got to defeat the Fascists," he said, snorting from asthma, switching his line of thought.†   (source)
  • By a mixacle of laziness and stupidity of the fascists which they will remedy in time.†   (source)
  • Down and up and down leads only to the road and the towns of the Fascists.†   (source)
  • How many of those you have killed have been real fascists?†   (source)
  • But they were in communication with the fascists, weren't they?†   (source)
  • "How goes it in the country of the fascists?" the man commanding asked.†   (source)
  • Yes, I heard him say you came from the fascist lines.†   (source)
  • And how can the world be made better if there are no children of us who fight against the fascists?†   (source)
  • When the fascists purified the town they shot first the father.†   (source)
  • There was one fairly good brain and there was a little fascist money.†   (source)
  • Three days later when the fascists took the town.†   (source)
  • "It was probably the fascists having manoeuvres," the General grinned.†   (source)
  • The fascists attacked and made our decision for us.†   (source)
  • Then by the sloth of a bureaucratic fascist.†   (source)
  • But in the fascist periodicals it says there are hundreds of thousands.†   (source)
  • Any fascist could invent such a mission.†   (source)
  • Do you know where there are no fascists?†   (source)
  • That Golz should be in such obvious communication with the fascists.†   (source)
  • Why not turn him over to El Sordo and let El Sordo sell him to the fascists?†   (source)
  • And of those how many were real fascists?†   (source)
  • How do you like it behind the fascist lines?†   (source)
  • Something about the fascists fighting among themselves.†   (source)
  • He was a very good fascist; a true Spanish fascist.†   (source)
  • This comrade has brought it through the fascist lines to give to Comrade General Golz.†   (source)
  • The fascists are warm, he thought, and they are comfortable, and tomorrow night we will kill them.†   (source)
  • I am no fascist but a guerrillero from the band of Pablo.†   (source)
  • Don Guillermo was a fascist but otherwise there Was nothing against him.†   (source)
  • But perhaps the fascists were faking for another offensive down through Guadalajara with them.†   (source)
  • And now this dispatch from the fascist lines.†   (source)
  • If it were by the Fascists all would know of it.†   (source)
  • There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.†   (source)
  • But he doesn't kill fascists like we do.†   (source)
  • The fascists had plenty of McClellans and we had at least three of them.†   (source)
  • "All these fascists are the same," the other voice said.†   (source)
  • 'We thresh fascists today,' said one, 'and out of the chaff comes the freedom of this pueblo.'†   (source)
  • "The fascists will do that," the man with his chin in the dirt said.†   (source)
  • Were there no other fascists in the village?†   (source)
  • Then Pablo ordered the priest to confess the fascists and give them the necessary sacraments.†   (source)
  • "From behind the fascist lines," Gomez said.†   (source)
  • We've killed more fascists than the typhus.†   (source)
  • He would take the fascist communication at once to Varloff.†   (source)
  • The fascists held the crests of the hills here.†   (source)
  • "The fascists would pay nothing for him anyway," Primitivo said.†   (source)
  • But are there not many fascists in your country?†   (source)
  • But remember this that as long as we can hold them here we keep the fascists tied up.†   (source)
  • And if all had killed the fascists as I did we would not have this war.†   (source)
  • There have been reports of fighting there behind the fascist lines.†   (source)
  • From these planes obviously the Fascists are preparing to meet it.†   (source)
  • Que va, were there no other fascists?†   (source)
  • I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and if some Communist or neo-Fascist State monopolized for the time being these dread agencies.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Fascism wanted to show its up-to-dateness, to conceal the fact that it was a retrogression; perhaps it wanted to conform to the tastes of the wealthy elite it served.†   (source)
  • He lived among the very rich, and in his speeches seemed to incline to revolutionary policies, flirting with Communists and Fascists.†   (source)
  • The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.†   (source)
  • The humans are often puzzled to understand the range of his opinions--why he is one day almost a Communist and the next not far from some kind of theocratic Fascism--one day a scholastic, and the next prepared to deny human reason altogether--one day immersed in politics, and, the day after, declaring that all states of us world are equally "under judgment".†   (source)
  • I do not believe we should all have slept so soundly had the positions been reversed and if some Communist or neo-Fascist State monopolized for the time being these dread agencies.†   (source)
  • Even Fascists whom we must kill.†   (source)
  • That Mussolini was late in coming to this only illustrates again the relative hesitance with which Italian Fascism has drawn the necessary implications of its role.†   (source)
  • 'Men famous by birth, or in finance, industry or the Fascist corporations' came together the other day and discussed the matter, and a telegram was sent to the Duce expressing the hope 'that the Fascist era would soon give birth to a poet worthy of it'.†   (source)
  • When these images clash–as in THE FASCIST OCTOPUS HAS SUNG ITS SWAN SONG, THE JACKBOOT IS THROWN INTO THE MELTING POT–it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.†   (source)
  • Most often this resentment toward culture is to be found where the dissatisfaction with society is a reactionary dissatisfaction which expresses itself in revivalism and puritanism, and latest of all, in fascism.†   (source)
  • --Essay on psychology in POLITICS (New York) (4) All the "best people" from the gentlemen's clubs, and all the frantic fascist captains, united in common hatred of Socialism and bestial horror of the rising tide of the mass revolutionary movement, have turned to acts of provocation, to foul incendiarism, to medieval legends of poisoned wells, to legalize their own destruction of proletarian organizations, and rouse the agitated petty-bourgeoisie to chauvinistic fervor on behalf of the…†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, the main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda into them, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.†   (source)
  • To obscenity with all fascism good.†   (source)
  • But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.†   (source)
  • Since I have understood fascism.†   (source)
  • It was Don Federico Gonzalez, who owned the mill and feed store and was a fascist of the first order.†   (source)
  • The man who was being pushed out by Pablo and Cuatro Dedos was Don Anastasio Rivas, who was an undoubted fascist and the fattest man in the town.†   (source)
  • Yes, he knew that it would be, from the things that happened in the parts the fascists had already taken.†   (source)
  • The fascists were all held in the Ayuntamiento, the city hall, which was the largest building on one side of the plaza.†   (source)
  • You did not see the father fall as Pilar made him see the fascists die in that story she had told by the stream.†   (source)
  • "I am not a fascist," Andres shouted.†   (source)
  • If there was no war I would go with Eladio to get crayfish from that stream back there by the fascist post.†   (source)
  • That was in the great days of Pablo when he scourged the country like a tartar and no fascist post was safe at night.†   (source)
  • Then there was a valley that no one held except for a fascist post in a farmhouse with its outbuildings and its barn that they had fortified.†   (source)
  • It cost the fascists one engine and killed a few troops but they all talk as though it were the high point of the war.†   (source)
  • Then the voice came, "Listen, fascist."†   (source)
  • The fascists had attacked and we had stopped them on that slope in the gray rocks, the scrub pines and the gorse of the Guadarrama hillsides.†   (source)
  • It was there the clock was set in the wall and it was in the buildings under the arcade that the club of the fascists was.†   (source)
  • What barbarians these fascists are!†   (source)
  • Every fascist dead is a fascist less.†   (source)
  • "You will have a breath that will carry through the forest to the fascists," Agustan said, his own mouth full.†   (source)
  • What do you behind the fascist lines?†   (source)
  • But most had flails obtained from the store of Don Guillermo Martin, who was a fascist and sold all sorts of agricultural implements.†   (source)
  • He was a fascist, too, from the religiousness of his wife which he accepted as his own due to his love for her.†   (source)
  • By the Republic or by the Fascists?†   (source)
  • He sat down in it and rolled himself a cigarette, all the time watching the fascists who were praying with the priest.†   (source)
  • They will revolt against the government when they see that they are threatened, exactly as the fascists have done here," Primitivo said.†   (source)
  • 'You didn't like it about the priest?' because I knew he hated priests even worse than he hated fascists.†   (source)
  • What about those fascist planes?†   (source)
  • Returning in the dark we encountered a fascist patrol and as we ran he was shot high in the back but without hitting any bone except the shoulder blade.†   (source)
  • Lying on his back, he saw them, a fascist patrol of three Fiats, tiny, bright, fast-moving across the mountain sky, headed in the direction from which Anselmo and he had come yesterday.†   (source)
  • But the Republicans would have had to carry the hay up the steep Guadarrama slope that rose beyond the meadow and the fascists did not need it, I suppose, he thought.†   (source)
  • Don Guillermo's house was no house, since he had not much money and was only a fascist to be a snob and to console himself that he must work for little, running a wooden-implement shop.†   (source)
  • Those were fascists you killed.†   (source)
  • And then, when the plaza was nicely moistened and the dust settled, the lines formed up again and a peasant shouted, 'When do we get the first fascist?†   (source)
  • If our father had not been a Republican both Eladio and I would be soldiers now with the fascists and if one were a soldier with them then there would be no problem.†   (source)
  • That was the end of the killing of the fascists in our town and I was glad I did not see more of it and, but for that drunkard, I would have seen it all.†   (source)
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