Word: bavaria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
...Seventh Army is assigned to blunt and delay Soviet attacks from the east until stronger forces can be assembled. To accomplish this, it has infantry and armored units scattered from Frankfurt to Bavaria. About 90,000 troops are considered combat ready. They include an advance guard of the Second and 14th Armored Cavalry regiments, which patrol the East German and Czechoslovakian borders, and the Berlin Brigade. The remainder of the Seventh is of uncertain efficiency...
...godson of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef and titular head of the clan that introduced the international postal system to Europe in the 16th century, the prince presided over a billion-dollar financial empire that includes Germany's third biggest private bank and vast stretches of latifundia in Bavaria, Canada and Brazil. One of the last Continental nobles to live in the imperial manner, he maintained eight castles staffed by more than 350 servants...
...since NATO long ago suggested such talks without prior negotiation. But the West Germans had a point when they pleaded that other negotiations should not be allowed to undermine or sidetrack the Berlin bargaining. Chancellor Willy Brandt, showing up unexpectedly at a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers at Mittenwald, Bavaria, emphasized that "new initiatives should not be permitted to serve as an excuse for lessening the intensity with which the negotiations over Berlin are being pursued." Later in the week, addressing a meeting of the Socialist International at Helsinki that also attracted Israel's Premier Golda Meir and Britain...
...Nazis. A few years ago, the National Democrats were polling as much as 9.8% of the vote in state elections and seemed headed toward becoming West Germany's third largest party. In addition to the Schleswig-Holstein defeat, the National Democrats have lost their seats in Bavaria, Hesse and Lower Saxony. They retain only 19 delegates in two state parliaments (Baden-Württemberg and Bremen), and they have, of course, no representation in the national Bundestag. "Four years ago, success followed success," said Party Leader Adolf ("Bubi") von Thadden. "Now one failure leads to another...