Diels
Americannoun
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I can just hear the players during the first rehearsal of “Laughing to Forget,” asking composer Natacha Diels, “You want us to do what?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2018
She had numerous lovers there, including, almost simultaneously, senior Nazi official Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl; the first head of the Gestapo, Rudolf Diels; and a Soviet spy who was later executed by Stalin.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2015
She became great pals with Rolf Diels, the Chief of the Secret Police, who looked like a Hollywood gangster, with "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, who swore that she was just the woman Hitler needed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dieldrin, named for a German chemist, Diels, is about 5 times as toxic as DDT when swallowed but 40 times as toxic when absorbed through the skin in solution.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
A conference held in June 1900, in which the speakers included Mommsen and von Wilamowitz, Harnack and Diels, was followed by the “Kiel Decree” of the 26th of November.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various
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