Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influence. The ones that rank as influential tend to be simple to grasp, endless in their implications, challenging to accomplish but still within the realm of possibility (for instance: Love thy neighbor). Perhaps one of the most influential men in American politics is the late Leo Strauss, the German emigre political philosopher who taught at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and '60s. His distrust of moral relativism, his deep skepticism about the benefits of the Enlightenment and his concern that the unchecked authority of reason would sabotage the cultural traditions that sustained civilization were absorbed by a generation...
...Games was marred by several controversial decisions, most notably one that gave a gold medal to Korean Park Si-hun over American Roy Jones Jr. According to a report in USA Today, British author Andrew Jennings says he has obtained a document from the files of the former East German police that apparently describes payoffs to judges to fix fights in favor of South Koreans. The charge is contained in his book The New Lords of the Rings...
Although Conant had been rather ambivalent about the German army's march across Europe prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland, after the start of the war on September 1, Conant "emerged on the national scene as a leading interventionist and in the Roosevelt administration as an apostle of military preparedness," according to a biography of Conant written by James B. Hershberg...
...early stages of Nazi aggression and even after the German invasion of Poland, the student body reacted angrily to Conant's position...
...signs of German aggression became clearer during 1941, greater numbers of students, in what another Crimson editorial termed a "seemingly drastic shift," prepared to leave school and head off to fight the enemy...