Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister --Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister --Mohandas Gandhi, father of modern India --Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet reformer --Adolf Hitler, German dictator --Ho Chi Minh, first President of North Vietnam --Pope John Paul II, religious leader --Ayatullah R. Khomeini, leader of Iran's revolution --Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader --Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union --Nelson Mandela, South African President --Mao Zedong, leader of communist China --Ronald Reagan, U.S. President --Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. First Lady --Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President and New Deal architect --Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President and environmentalist --Margaret...
STEFFI GRAF In comeback, German ace gets the French to cheer her with her first Grand Slam title since...
...odds with President Roosevelt and the interventionists, my father was branded a traitor, a Copperhead and even a Nazi. When he traveled to Germany to review German air power at the request of the American military attache in Berlin, he was given a medal by his Nazi hosts and later ignored public appeals to repudiate and return it. (He had in fact sent it to a museum, as he did other awards he received throughout his life.) Finally, and disastrously, my father made a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1941, identifying as the three groups unwisely advocating U.S. entry...
Aims to help German-speaking students and students interested in issues concerning the German-speaking world to get together and share common interests and pursuits...
...insists that many of her current interests and projects were picked up quite by accident. She is teaching herself Japanese because she won a summer fellowship from the music department to study the culture of the tango in China, Japan and Taiwan. She brushes up on high school German to read the papers of Einstein, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in their original German, and she is currently composing a piece for chorus and orchestra in Chinese because her mother happened to be "listening to a lot of Chinese music" when Lan went home to New York City to celebrate Chinese...