Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SOUTH CAROLINA: Born during the presidency of Teddy Roosevelt, trapped behind German lines on D day, and the only person ever to win a write-in campaign for the U.S. Senate, Strom Thurmond appears tanned and ready to run for an unprecedented eighth term. "He is a fascinating man, and too easily discounted," reports TIME's Lisa H. Towle from Raleigh, North Carolina. "I don't think there is a South Carolinian alive today who has not received a letter from him. When you graduate from high school, he sends you a letter. Everybody." It is Thurmond's service...
...black souls through American slavocracy will be fulfilled, is anyone's guess. My intuition tells me that it certainly has not been reached in our era any more than a mature stage of a redeeming process vis-a-vis Germany's genocidal violation of Jewish souls by the fascist German state can be said to have been realized...
...person had to act out a word; another held his breath as the timekeeper; another translated into French, German, or Spanish; and another person guessed what it was," Bruce said...
...turnaround would be no small task. The German-born Spindler, 53, known as "the Diesel" for his drive, was himself brought in as a miracle worker by Markkula, when Apple's share of the personal-computer market hovered at 9.4%. Now it is just 7.8%. The company was hard hit last year by the arrival of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, which mimics the look and feel of Apple's Macintosh computers but runs on IBM-compatible machines that are cheaper...
Adding to the frustration, Professor of German Maria M. Tatar's Fairy Tales and Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson's Chinese Family are expected not to be offered next year...