Word: german
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next day Solomon met separately with German and Japanese officials who had been invited to the U.S. in great secrecy, because the approval of their governments was needed for the foreign-currency borrowings. (Japanese Vice Minister of Finance Takehiro Sagami blandly told anyone who asked that he was going to Washington for a medical checkup.) Though the White House denied...
Germany's distinguished novelist Günter Grass a male chauvinist? One of the biggest, says a German women's group, who named him M.C. of the Month for his new book, an epic about a sexist talking fish. During a visit to Atlanta, where he read passages from The Flounder, Grass naturally had some talking to do. "The women's lib movement," he said, "has a lot of women who want to use power like men. We have enough stupid men who use power." Grass also had some criticisms about American writers, who, he claims, have...
...Preferring to pass on their exploits in heroic song and verse, they left no written history or literature and, alas, many questions about their culture. But more and more Celtic remains are being uncovered across Europe, the latest one a remarkable burial site discovered this summer near the West German city of Stuttgart. From these finds the extraordinary breadth and depth of Celtic civilization is slowly emerging...
...cosmonauts aboard the same Salyut 6 space station (the U.S. record is 84 days in orbit, set by a Skylab crew in 1974), Kovalenok, a Soviet air force colonel, and Ivanchenkov, his flight engineer, chalked up other feats. They played host to two visiting ships, one carrying an East German, the other a Polish cosmonaut. Resupplied three times by remote-controlled ferry craft, they conducted extensive observations of both the heavens and earth, and performed such experiments as growing crystals for electronic components and testing the effects of zero gravity on bacteria, and tried out a new, flexible space suit...
...time, plague was in the air, and the death of kings implied an unimaginable catastrophe. Racism and superstition prevailed. Occupations that are now obsolete dot his plays: cooper, wheelwright, alchemist, bellman. His language glitters with marvelous words that have, alas, also become obsolete: porpentine (porcupine); swound (faint); german (akin); caitiff (wretch); borthens (the hair of corpses); grise (a stair); bisson (blind). However immortal, Shakespeare, no less than Aristophanes or Mozart, needs his modern interpreters...