Word: german
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...baseball and football fixtures slumped, the games' following through newspapers and radio took off. Stories of gritty players overcoming adversity to triumph on the field were printed "almost ad nausea," says Crepeau. From the economic misery, heroes offered a diversion. When Joe Louis fought back to beat German Max Schmeling for the world heavyweight boxing crown in 1938, he later said, "the whole damned country was depending on me." Australia's greatest Depression heroes were a cricket player and a horse. Populated by local working class heroes, English soccer "provided a sense of national wellbeing at a time when other...
...animals? This is inhumane," a man yells from a bus that is packed so tightly with people that limbs, heads, and torsos are pressed against the dirty windows. "I'm a German citizen," he calls out. "I have two children with me. They are dying." To the non-Palestinians at Rafah Crossing, "Come and see how the Palestinians live" was a popular refrain through the long, hot wait. Everyone wanted his or her name and story recorded; passports and documents were thrust in the face of a foreign journalist. "Record this," people asked with desperation...
...unlucky Palestinians were the foreign passport holders who didn't have Palestinian identification cards. All were born in Gaza, but some had been away for a decade or more. They carried Swiss, German, Spanish, and Australian passports. "No Palestinian ID card, no entry," a border guard shouted back at a Spanish-Palestinian couple who had been pulled off a bus at the checkpoint while their luggage continued on to Gaza. Last year, the couple said they had tried to enter the territory through Erez. They made it into Israel, but were denied entry to Gaza. "I don't want...
...collector sites of comments like, "That is so cool! The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!" - leads to suspension of as senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch, after which comes the belated realization by that "images of the Second World War German military are hurtful to many...
...revived again.' HEIKE SCHULTZ, a spokeswoman for German TV network RTL, which produced a video that purported to show the late Michael Jackson stepping out of a coroner's van. The station says it perpetuated the hoax to demonstrate how easily rumors spread on the Internet...