Word: german
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, German-American relations resembled nothing so much as a late 18th century romantic novel, with a fluttery maiden (the Federal Republic), a sometimes cold lover (the U.S.), with dialogue full of Sturm und Drang. Everytime a Senator would complain about the high cost of keeping six U.S. divisions in West Germany, shudders would run up Bonn spines. Every time the cold war would thaw a bit, Bonn would demand reassurance-once again -that permanent division of Germany would not be the price of a Soviet-U.S. rapprochement...
Washington makes no secret of its relief about the new West German mood. The greetings for Brandt last week, in fact, could scarcely have been more effusive. Vice President Humphrey, a first-name friend for years, invited him up to his new apartment for breakfast. As Brandt stepped out of his Mercedes limousine at the State Department, 15 Marines formed an honor guard, a tribute extended to no other foreign visitor in memory. Yet, despite the new air of easy friendliness, Washington has been warned that it will have to bargain hard with the "new" Bonn on at least...
Spam & Destroyers. A German Jew by descent (his grandfather settled in the U.S. in 1866), Morgenthau recognized sooner than most the threat posed by Hitler's rise. He advocated and largely directed the American effort to gear for war. At the end of his career, he looked back with justifiable pride on the days when he helped procure everything from Spam to destroyers for Britain, and drafted the Lend-Lease Act. Then he had the tasks of financing the U.S. war effort-the biggest budgets in the nation's history up to that time-and of making plans...
...advantages of German A fade in the second semester, Spaethling pointed out, when students become bored with parroting back phrases. German B's problem is that "you can't put a rule in an empty room," he said. "You have to fill it first with sounds and noises and then introduce a rule to make sense of the jumble...
...German has long been the College's most popular language on the elementary level, though in recent years enrollment has fallen from 400 to 200 students. The Department attributes this decline to improved high school teaching and not to a drop in the popularity of German courses...