Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Berlin, the restaurant of the Kempinski Hotel was serving a World Cup Cocktail-equal parts of curacao, vodka and orange juice-at 5½ Deutsche Mark a throw, or kick. On the Kudamm you could buy a record of the West German eleven trolling "Football is our life . . . King Football rules the world." Democratic Germany, as opposed to the German Democratic Republic, was taking the footballworld-mastership to her uncorseted and friendly bust. The spirit of internationalism was stretched so far that even selected chain gangs from the workers' paradise over the Wall were clanked into the corruptive...
...long sought. Notwithstanding its symbolic importance, this was, like the SALT agreement, nothing more than a concession to reality, an acknowledgment of an already existing situation. "The most striking success of détente has taken place here in Central Europe," says Lowenthal. "The four-power agreement on Berlin, for example, has been an unqualified Western success, and it has greatly increased the security of the city. For the first time, the Soviet Union and East Germany have recognized the city's institutional ties to West Germany...
...first trained his guns on the U.S.S.R. In 1941 the marshal smashed the myth of Nazi invincibility by engineering the defense of Moscow with a flood of Siberian troops, and later won the great battles of Stalingrad, Leningrad and the Dnieper. An icy strategist and disciplinarian, he pushed to Berlin, sustaining a million casualties, and returned to Moscow as Russia's savior. Annoyed by Zhukov's celebrity, Stalin downplayed the marshal's achievements and farmed him off to bush-league posts in Odessa and the Urals. The day after Stalin's death in 1953, Zhukov...
...that Winter Kills is a gothic farce about the assassination in the early 1960s of U.S. President Tim Keegan. Condon unaccountably gives Keegan a younger half brother named Nick Thirkield who uncovers the plot afterward, and although the shooting occurs in Philadelphia, not Dallas, President Keegan travels to Berlin during the blockade and tells cheering crowds, "Ich bin ein Berliner...
Brandt himself earned a reputation as a "good German." The illegitimate son of a Lübeck shopgirl, he joined the Socialist youth organization in 1931, and was forced to leave Germany after Hitler came to power. He first came to world attention as mayor of West Berlin between 1957 and 1966. During the recurring Berlin crises, including East Germany's erection of the Wall in 1961, Brandt was the symbol of his city's determination to remain free...