Word: fingerhold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Father (Peter Michael Goetz) has the wheyfaced fatigue and resigned gallantry of the immigrant provider who got a foothold on U.S. soil only to have the Depression whittle it to a scrabbling fingerhold on survival. Simon is openly comfortable with the Jewishness of his characters, and he knows the dread words that are italicized whispers in this home: "cancer," "diphtheria," "heart attack...
...Grusselbach the wire fence is 9 ft. high and anchored 3 ft. deep in the ground to prevent tunneling. It is topped with specially sharpened mesh so fine that a fingerhold is impossible. It is hung with powerful fragmentation mines at head, chest and knee level that can be triggered automatically by trip wires or detonated from nearby guard towers. For 547 yds. back into East Germany, all vegetation has been cleared, and the ground is raked regularly so telltale footprints will show. Farther back runs a deep trench that prevents vehicles from reaching the fence. Nearly a mile inside...
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