Word: bluchers
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...fruitcake!" young Frankstein cries out in disbelief. He is quickly seduced, though, by the siren call of Victor's madness and is soon trying to reproduce the experiments. He is aided by a shapely but vacant assistant called Inga (Teri Garr) and by the stainless-steel housekeeper Frau Blucher, played by Cloris Leachman, who does a skillful and witty parody on the Judith Anderson role in Hitchcock's Rebecca...
...laggard. Probably no battle has ever been won by the general who was late. "Time is everything," Lord Nelson said. "Five minutes makes the difference between victory and defeat." The French were kind enough to prove his point a few years later. If the dilatory Marshal Ney had beaten Blucher's Prussians to position at Waterloo, the battle could have ended in a French victory, and Wellington might have taken Bonaparte's lease on the house at St. Helena. Similarly, if Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart had shown up at Gettysburg when he was supposed to, instead of galloping...
...special session of the General Assembly. He listened with obvious satisfaction as the delegates quickly adopted the agenda-discussion of peace in the Middle East-and adjourned for the weekend, to commence serious debate this week. As the highest-ranking Russian visitor to the U.N. since Khrushchev's blucher-banging sortie in 1960, Kosygin was a man with a mission. Having failed to bail out their Arab client-states on the battlefields, the Soviets sought to use diplomacy to deny the Israelis the heady wine of victory...
Leading lawyers and administrators, including Rexford T. Tugwell, a member of the original FDR "brain trust," Walter H. Blucher, perhaps the most famous living planner in the world, and Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, will speak in a newly established lecture series under the sponsorship of the Department of City and Regional Planning...
...Community Interest and In dividual Rights." Subsequent lecturers will include James Shurtleff, former City Manager of Medford; Frank E. Horack, Jr., professor of Law at Indiana University; Charles Ascher, professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College; C. McKim Norton, executive director of the New York Regional Plan Association; Blucher; and Tugwell. The series is in honor of Frank Backus Williams...