Word: derfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the referendum group estimated that somewhat over half the 9000 signatures were collected in door-to-door canvassing throught Cambridge during the past two months, and the remain der from stands in Harvard and Central Squares...
...Russian steppes, the fields of the Caucasus, what the bursting of the grenades have wrought," he once told them proudly, "will withstand the pragmatic materialism of our time." Last week, though, Defregger was rudely reminded of quite a different aspect of his military career. The German newsweekly Der Spiegel broke the story that shortly before his consecration, the Frankfurt Crimes Department had investigated Defregger on suspicion of wartime murder...
...northeast of Rome. In 1944, Defregger was a captain in command of an intelligence company in the area. On June 7 of that year, Italian partisans had shot at least one German soldier in a radio transmitter unit of his company. According to Defregger's own account in Der Spiegel, there had been four victims, not one; the division commander retaliated by ordering the captain to "pick up 20 to 22 local men in the 20-to-50 age group and execute them." Eventually, 17 men, ranging from 17 to 65, were shot, and much of the village...
Under the Bridge. The villagers of Filetto di Camarda were perhaps more ready to forgive than some of Defregger's own countrymen. Though a few of them called for revenge, and a survivor provided Der Spiegel with lurid details about the executions, one old lady spoke for many when she said, "For us, it is all water under the bridge." It was not quite so in Munich, where the city's powerful daily, Süddeutsche Zeitung, called for the bishop's resignation, and some Catholics whose children had been confirmed by Defregger demanded that their children...
...effect written the silences and let the words fill in suggestively. Such a drastically reductive approach yields spare shards of poetic realism, reminiscent of the prose of Joyce and Beckett. But it also demonstrates a rather arid point: in esthetics it is not always true, as Mies van der Rohe once said, that less is more. Sometimes it is less...