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Word: autobahns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present, starts off with a joke that might have been heard over coffee at a Tory think tank: "Glasnost is trying to escape over the Wall, and getting shot with a silenced machine gun!" Its pivotal violence is a bloody shoot-out during an attempted escape along the autobahn from Berlin to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooked by a Crumbling Wall | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...They could buy an American car, even if it began to shimmy at 90 or 100 m.p.h. on the autobahn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Why I Voted for a Used Car | 11/6/1989 | See Source »

...battle was drawn out and acrimonious, but it finally concluded in less time than it takes a Mercedes to eat up a stretch of an autobahn. Daimler- Benz, the company that makes Mercedes cars and trucks, bought its way into the top ranks of West Germany's defense contractors. The carmaker last week struck a $150 million deal to take over Dornier, West Germany's second largest aerospace manufacturer (1984 sales: about $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers and Now: Defense By Mercedes | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...went up and the Soviets interfered with access to West Berlin, President Kennedy once more turned to a military display. He ordered 1,500 troops of the U.S. 8th Division to form a battle group and drive in armored trucks 110 miles through East Germany along the Helmstedt-Berlin autobahn. Critics called the move too provocative. Kennedy believed it a crucial symbol of his determination. The battle group made an uninterrupted journey and was effusively greeted in Berlin by Vice President Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: How to Do Nothing Well | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

...scene must have looked like something being staged for a Fassbinder movie. The whiz of Volkswagens streaming along the Autobahn slowed down as drivers ogled the spectacle at the side of the road. There sat a Peugeot with a blown-out tire, and perched on a suitcase near by sat a bespectacled Chinese youth serenely playing Haydn on his cello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Yo-Yo's Way with the Strings | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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