Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kluncker deserted the German army in 1944 and escaped to the United States, where he remained in an prison camp until the end of the war. After the war Kluncker returned to his homeland, where he became an official of West Germany's Social Democratic Party and halped start labor unions...
...There was a need to have a medium of contact among workers to tell people in Russia that we are a majority of German people in favor of creating peace, but we do not agree with their political structure--we are not in favor of a communist dictatorship," Kluncker says...
...others, the luxury of time and health has required some creative thinking. In the 1880s, when German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck set the retirement age at 65, the average life expectancy was 45. No problem there. But these days, many of those over 65 who prepared themselves for a life of leisure found they were not cut out for it. For them, the greatest luxury of retirement is returning to work -- on their own terms. Robert Pamplin, 76, former head of the Georgia-Pacific Corp., prudently began plotting his corporate afterlife ten years before he reached his company's mandatory...
...contenders for this week's Oscar nominations focus on English boys growing up during World War II. In Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, a lad gets shanghaied into maturity at the cost of his old principles; in John Boorman's Hope and Glory, a boy finds German fire bombs virtually on his front porch. Neither child would fit comfortably into a Hollywood idyll, past or present, where kids are expected to have reality-resistant minds and hang out forever at the soda fountain of youth...
...British district commission in the Sudan, he was regularly called on to shoot cattle-killing lions. He did so on foot, sharing great dangers with villagers armed only with spears. During World War II he fought Italians in Ethiopia; in Libya he took part in raids on German encampments and communications as part of a jeep-mounted guerrilla unit...