Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminder of Berlin, Hitler, and the rest of the 1936 Olympics provides a pretty solid answer. And if that's not adequate, ponder the Marxist-capitalist disagreement over the superiority of play or work...
...when a former business associate, whom he met by chance one night in a pub, wrote out a ?38,000 check on the spot to finance a Laker scheme to buy twelve planes from British Overseas Airways Corp. With them, Laker flew 4,000 sorties in the 1948-49 Berlin airlift. "We made a lot of money," he recalls, "but we bloody well earned every penny...
Discussing his record. Kissinger compares the world of 1968 with that of 1976. When he came to the White House, Berlin was a flash point for World War III, and there were 500,000 American troops in Viet Nam. There was little American presence or influence in the Middle East outside of Israel, no relations with Communist China, and cold-war jargon dominated any dialogue with Moscow...
...earlier the U.S. enters a crisis, the greater the chances for success. Because the U.S. proved its readiness to protect West Berlin as far back as the 1948 blockade, later American muscle-flexing quickly persuaded the Kremlin to back down from efforts to instigate crises. In 1961, by rushing U.S. tanks to the Brandenburg Gate and calling up reserve units, President Kennedy forced Nikita Khrushchev to abandon his plans to change the status of the divided city...
...Butler are primarily interested in letting the shipboard soap operas play out to their predictable conclusions: Will the Werner-Dunaway marriage unthaw on the bounding main? Will Lee Grant be able to control her melancholiac husband, who is, she announces, "retreating into himself? "Your orders come straight from Berlin. If you refuse to accept them, be prepared to accept the consequences for yourself-and your family." Will Malcolm McDowell have a chance to initiate Lynne Frederick into the mysteries of "what it is to be a woman"? Some vulgarity can be amusing, but Voyage of the Damned is not only...