Word: afrika
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...most successful anti-Israelis. "I'm embarrassed sometimes," says a West German businessman, "when an Arab says 'Heil Hitler!' to me." A less sensitive colleague admits that he prefers his Mideastern salesmen to be men "with good war records" -ideally, former members of Rommel's Afrika Korps...
...Rommel Calls Cairo Monty won at El Alamein, even though the Afrika Korps knew his battle plan; the wicked Gestapo had branded it a plant. In The Green Devils of Monte Cassino the Germans held the abbey five months against heavy Allied attacks because their parachutists needed that time to bring its art treasures to the safety of the Vatican. In U-47, dashing Submariner Günther Prien plunks his torpedoes into the British battleship Royal Oak at Scapa Flow, but when his deck officer shouts "Hurrah!", whispers: "Shut up; 2,000 men have just died aboard that ship...
...economic advantages in staying in the Commonwealth), but the Union Jack is no longer flown, and God Save the Queen is no longer South Africa's anthem. In his honor South Africa's state radio played solemn music and the official anthem, Die Stem van Suid Afrika (The Voice of South Africa...
...minutes ticked slowly by, the silence was broken only by the occasional stifled whimpering of the babies strapped on women's backs. On the half-hour there arose a roar: "Afrika Maribuya!" (Africa return to us!), and the women in their bright costumes began to sway to the rhythm of Nkosi Sikelele Afrika (God Bless Africa), the National Congress anthem. Their protest made, the women went away as quietly as they had come...
...novel's guinea pig hero is Richard Terrell, a peacetime chemical engineer and wartime captain in the British army. An Afrika Korps stick grenade sends him into amnesia for ten days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of tranquillizing drugs, insulin and electric shock treatments and doubletalk ("idealization of the phantasmal reorientation") from one of the "headshrinkers." After two years or so, Dick is released with a nervous tic behind his left ear, and the vaguely damning words "constitutional inferiority" stamped on his army discharge papers. His wife...