Word: ck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nobody knows." The fourth, Nobilis-sima Visione, was known as St. Francis when Massine danced it. "I never go to see the performances," Hindemith added. "I saw Nobilissima once because I had to conduct it." In less melodic days, Atonalist Hindemith wrote an opera (Hin und Zurück) to be performed both forwards and back wards. The Nazis called him a "Kulturbol-schewist noisemaker" and banned his works from Germany. Says Hindemith: "I never was controversial. But people were." Today, at 50, Hindemith is a solid citizen of New Haven, Conn. ("It's close to New York...
Among the heating elements used were four "very good-looking, clean, young" gypsy girls from Ravenbrück prison camp. Stripped naked, they were wrapped in the same blankets with the moribund victim. Goring's plan - if their warmth proved therapeutic - was to outfit Nazi rescue vessels with similar warming units...
...were really hungry or ragged. Ahead of the invaders, fleeing Germans were eating horse meat on the roads, but for those who stayed behind, even in the cavernous cities, food seemed sufficient. In heavily bombed Münster, restaurants served steaming Westphalian meals to all. In Osnabrück's intact suburbs, German civilians thrust food and schnapps on the invaders without thought of payment. Department-store shelves were crammed with linen, stockings, blankets, perfume, cameras. Cellars overflowed with fine French wines. British Commandos who took the town lived opulently on champagne, ham & eggs, ripe strawberries...
British and American pilots wondered how any German could live in the inferno below. Said fine flyer: "The Ruhr is lit up, messed up and ruined. The hearts of the cities are dead." Perhaps the main targets - Münster, Osnabrück, Rheine, Coesfeld, Siegen, among many others-were now only names for history, the relics of air power's biggest day in its biggest week...
...Moselle, upriver from Coblenz, Lieut. General George S. Patton's 5th and goth Divisions had carved out substantial bridgeheads on the south bank. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's crack 4th Armored Division poured through, shot south into the Hunsrück plateau. Resistance was almost nil. At the narrow Simmer River, the tankmen found the bridges intact, pressed on to Bad Kreuz-nach, junction of three rail lines and four highways. The goth tagged along on Gaffey's left, taking mellow old Rhine towns -Boppard, St. Goar, Bingen-like buttons from a ripped-open shirt...