Word: gerli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freight cars rattled eastward across Ger many. Russian and Polish repatriates were packed in until there was no room to sit. Some, looking happy for cameramen, sunned themselves (see cut), waved at Red Army soldiers, ducked when the train crawled through a tunnel...
...Silesia, the Sudetenland, East Prussia and Pomerania, surly, stony-eyed Ger mans hid their belongings against the day when they would have to move. Some would go east, to Russia and forced labor. The lucky ones would go west, to a new and humbler life...
...bold, hard, mechanistic abstraction hot off the easel of expatriate Frenchman Fernand Léger-The Great Julie, painted...
...debate on how close the Ger mans came to reversing the tide of war in the Ardennes breakthrough, General Ike said flatly: the professional German soldiers knew the jig was up on the third day of the breakthrough. On that day von Rundstedt found out "he could not go where he intended" (i.e., Liege...
When Baruch saw the story Lasky wrote, he insisted on some major changes. One Baruch quote ("We've got to so de-industrialize Germany and Japan - at least for a generation - that they won't go to war again"), might make effective Ger man propaganda. The reference to the Churchill phone call might be considered too cavalier by his British hosts. And Mr. Baruch did not use language like "damn" and "foul up." Stars & Stripes obligingly cut out the offending passages - but the Associated Press had already sent Lasky's original story back...