[Ads-l] Facebookery: how Hitler rose to power

[Wilson Gray]

"... by mounting on the terror."

As though it were a horse? In context, it's clear that the writer means "by
_piling on_" or "by increasing" the terror.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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