Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This [inclusion] may mean that the timeallotted to studying the formerly canonicalauthors may be reduced, but one looks at them froma different perspective," says Assistant Professorof German Beatrice Hanssen, who is also a memberof the women's studies committee...
...encountered a couple of early German jetfighters, which had just been designed," Bentonsays. "They went by us in no time at all," hesays, but "they didn't really do us any harm...
...dawn before we landed. At first, everything seemed to be going pretty well: we had good smoke and fog cover. We were told that the troops in front of us were just 150 young German kids with bicycles. But we did not expect the German 352nd Division. So as soon as we hit the beach, we came under heavy fire from a battle-hardened field division. Jesus! Had we known we were up against a crack unit like that, we'd have messed up our pants...
...were in a very bad position, pinned down on the beach, with a German division in front of us and only water behind us. We had 7 yds. of beachhead with no cover; the highest thing around was a shale rock. The only way to get off the beach was to blow up a big tank trap that was blocking our way. Finally one of our guys took the trap out with a bangalore torpedo ((a metal tube packed with high explosives)). They sent me to find our commander, Colonel George Taylor, and tell him we'd opened a breach...
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