Word: adolf
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During World War 11, Munoz Grandes was the first commander of Spain's "Blue Division," which Franco sent to fight alongside the Germans on the Russian front; for bravery in action, Adolf Hitler personally awarded him the Iron Cross. After returning to Madrid, Munoz Grandes served in several army posts, played an important part in negotiating Spain's 1953 agreement to permit U.S. air bases on Spanish soil. In 1957 Franco promoted him to the rank of captain general (the Spanish equivalent of field marshal), the next year named him chief of the General Staff...
...turned around, and started marching homeward at the same tempo. A sergeant barked at him to stop, but Painter Werner Gilles replied mildly and matter-of-factly, "That blackbird up in that tree just told me, 'No, no, Gilles, this can come to no good.' " In time, Adolf Hitler's army psychiatrists sent Gilles back to the safety of civilian life, but for the painter the talking blackbird had been as real as the barking sergeant...
...Hamburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Hamburg Musikhalle echoed to a stamping, shouting ovation. The orchestra had provided a dividend: playing the fiendishly difficult trumpet part was perhaps the best classical trumpeter in Europe-the North German Radio Orchestra's pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.), portly (187 Ibs.) Adolf Scherbaum...
...pledges that committed him to build up the Communist state, increase production, volunteer for military, civil defense or nursing duty. The government made another psychological error in forming a "Walter Ulbricht Brigade" of volunteers, whose name and style bitterly reminded East Germans of the SS elite corps named for Adolf Hitler...
Legacy from Adolf. A trip in a Rodriquez hydrofoil is like water-skiing in a bus. Projecting down from the ferry's trim speedboat hull are legs with winglike metal skis on the end. As the ship picks up speed, the hull rises out of the water and skims along on its skis. Because it has only the drag of the skis, a Rodriquez hydrofoil needs only half the power of a conventional boat to achieve the same speed. More important, its top speed is three times that of the average conventional ferryboat-which means that it can move...