Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garrison Dam. It was a ride reminiscent of the great days of the 1952 campaign. At intersections and in the small, dusty towns along Route 83, farmers and their families gathered to wave at the President. Here and there a well-worn "I Like Ike" banner appeared, and in Bismarck, one shapely young woman in a black bathing suit had plastered the word "Ike" across her waist in white tape...
Throne & Altar. Dibelius was born in Berlin, the son of a high government official in a Germany prosperous, pious and proud. It was 1880, just nine years after Count Otto von Bismarck had Wilhelm I crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck...
...Name and rank?" For a moment the young German fighter pilot, shot down near Stalingrad, wondered if it was safe to admit to the Russian interrogator that he was Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, the great-grandson of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. But his hesitation lasted only a moment: von Einsiedel gave his name and famous pedigree...
...Bismarck? Bismarck?" The interrogator shouted with excitement, and rushed to a phone to tell his superiors what a fancy bird had dropped into their laps. From that moment von Einsiedel got the best of care-Russian style. In the next two days he was beaten up only once (with a gun butt), and once was stood before a firing squad (but that was just a joke: after firing over his head, the Russians roared with laughter...
...were a long-distance truck on U.S. Route 1, set out from British ports on Arctic convoys or anti-submarine patrols as if he were taking the family across to Staten Island, and bombed-up a Flying Fortress as though he were loading the mails from Bismarck for Butte, Montana...