Word: barbarossa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classify their discoveries as Troy I through IX; Troy VIIA was the "Ilios, city of magnificent houses," as Homer called it, that fell to the duplicity of Greeks. Leveled by the Romans, Carthage returned to life to become the third city of the Empire; in the Middle Ages, Frederick Barbarossa poured salt on the blackened ruins of Milan, but neither fire nor salt could stop the city's resurgence...
...long-gone folk hero often leaves behind the legend that someday he will return to his people. Barbarossa still sleeps, and the horn of Roland has not sounded again, but Elvis Presley is appearing in the flesh before an audience for the first time in nine years...
...city of Pushkin and Dostoevsky, Leningrad stood, in Salisbury's words, as "the invisible barrier between the end of Russia and the beginning of Europe." It was a prime military and propaganda target for Hitler's surging armies when, in June 1941, the Germans suddenly loosed Operation Barbarossa against their erstwhile Russian allies...
Would you believe: That during World War II the Allies were warned weeks in advance of the blitzkrieg invasions of Poland, Holland, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Norway and Denmark? That Stalin received a verbatim plan of "Operation Barbarossa"-the crushing German push into Russia-more than a month before it happened? And that nobody in Moscow or The Hague or Whitehall or Washington did anything about those warnings...
...tried to feed his inside dope to Britain, France and the U.S., but was not believed because he would not admit to his source. Then began a liaison with Moscow's MGB-known to him as "the Center." Stalin at first ignored Roessler's pipeline poop on "Barbarossa." But when the Germans invaded as advertised, the Center quickly began paying Roessler $1,600 a month for everything he could transmit...