Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quality-assurance engineer was contentedly playing in the basement of his Wexford, Pa., home with his N-gauge model railroad--three lines spread over 36 sq. ft. of diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop might even be put out of business. All because the U.S. wants to punish Europe for discriminating against bananas grown by U.S. companies in Latin America...
...centuries ago, would have named the English language and the English-speaking peoples as Most Likely to Succeed? Why is it not, say, German culture rather than American that saturates the globe? Why not Japanese, or Spanish, or French? How to account for the dominance of English as the language of the world's elites, or for the military/industrial/financial pre-eminence that, after two world wars, passed from the British Empire to the Americans...
MARRIED. PRINCESS CAROLINE OF MONACO, 42, and PRINCE ERNST AUGUST OF HANOVER, 44, a cousin of the Windsors; at a private civil ceremony on her birthday; in Monaco. The wedding is his second and her third (she was divorced in 1980 and widowed in 1990). Caroline first met the German prince when she was in high school...
BONN: "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing..." Even Pastor Martin Niemoller's famous poem denouncing German silence in the Holocaust is silent on those concentration camp inmates who wore the pink triangle. But Wednesday's official Holocaust Memorial ceremonies for the first time included a special tribute to the estimated 12,500 gay men who died after being sent to the camps because of their sexual orientation. "Germany has waited this long to acknowledge the gay victims of Nazism because public acceptance of homosexuality has been slow in coming," says...
...inclusion of gay victims in ceremonies marking the country's fourth annual Holocaust Memorial day reflects a generational shift in German society. "Those in power today came of age during the radical protests of 1968," says Sautter. "They're more relaxed about acknowledging and discussing the Holocaust, compared with the earlier generation who were riddled with guilt and shame. Opening up these issues has been a lot healthier for Germany...