Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah of Iran and that exiled Italian princess and a similar amount of space to that Polish refugee novelist Hlasko. He sounds like a real interesting guy and I'm glad to see some coverage of his activities in Germany rather than any of this dull stuff about German reunification. The same goes for the story on the princess. Who wants to read about a cabinet resigning anyway...
WASHINGTON, Feb 2--Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) said tonight Secretary of State Dulles is seriously considering a counter proposal to Russia on the German issue...
Mies put his principles into classic but temporary form at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition with his German Pavilion, a building that proved to be one of the most influential structures of modern times. But for a long time Mies found no time or opportunity to build a permanent museum. His opportunity came when Nina Cullinan, daughter of Texas Oilman Joseph Stephen Cullinan, offered the Houston Museum of Fine Arts $625,000 to build a new wing...
...Monty's Double (NTA Pictures). In the spring of 1944, not long before Dday, Adolf Hitler had reason to congratulate himself on the efficiency of German intelligence in North Africa. All along the air route from the Rock to the Nile, agents picked up rumors that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was making a secret inspection tour of Allied forces in the area, and several of the best reported that they had actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from...
Carmian is the writing daughter of an American father and a German mother. She is alone in Paris and so sensitive, so vulnerable that the plight of a homeless cat can reduce her to tears. She drinks too much, writes too little and apparently wants nothing but the affection that a pointless life has denied her. When the young Russian named Dima comes along, the accident of love is as inevitable as the bump of a skidding taxicab on the Pont Royal. Their love affair begins with a drink, a look and a touch. It flames, gutters and flames again...