Word: achtung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Achtung, Achtung!" In a Hamburg suburb, Ollenhauer lambasted German rearmament with the particularly hollow charge that it was lowering Germany's standard of living, then motored out to the East-West border village of Eichholz on what he hoped would be a dramatic demonstration of his concern for German reunification. Ahead of Ollenhauer's Mercedes went a grey Volkswagen with loudspeakers chanting: "Achtung, Achtung...
Hier ist Ollenhauer." A few hundred mildly curious villagers heeded the Achtung, listened to Ollenhauer in a chatty little speech about reunification, while nervous border guards watched through field glasses to see if the Communist Volkspolizei across the border thought Ollenhauer, was going to attempt reunification on the spot. Nothing happened: the barriers did not fall. Ollenhauer, jolly and beaming, got back into his Mercedes and resumed his pursuit of an issue, any issue, that would stand up against Konrad Adenauer and the sausages...
...well-laid plans for German rearmament also began to go awry. Outside the locked iron gates of Augsburg's Rosenau Stadium last week milled an overflow crowd of some 2,000 men-crutch-borne veterans and draftage youngsters. Derisively they barked the familiar German parade ground orders: Achtung. Vorwarts marsch. Rechts urn, links urn, rechts um." Inside the stadium restaurant, another 1,000 jammed crutch-littered tables, guzzling beer from massive mugs and laughing at the youngsters who mock goose-stepped around in paper hats...
...tugboat lashed alongside the Raman, and kept the tug's nightwatchman busy with a merry prattle in Turkish and gifts of Turkish cigarettes. The rest boarded the Raman and fired up her wheezy engines. Within minutes, the tanker edged away from the dock, dragging the tug with her. "Achtung!" shouted the fuddled watchman. "Take it easy, old man," bawled a Turk. "There is nothing...
...said the lawyer, was Enrico de Boccard, a writer for Rome's weekly Meridiano d'ltalia, who had reviewed Gina's picture, Achtung Banditi (Beware of Bandits). Wrote De Boccard: "The only thing of any continuity [in the picture] consists of [Gina's] breasts . . . Those breasts, which appear ... to be rather praiseworthy, are presented in all possible ways, in long shots, medium shots, close-up and very closeup, and to give them particular prominence, they have been subjected to a perpetual trembling and wavering . . ." In his agitation, De Boccard failed to mention that Gina was properly...