Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with most of the rest of the civilized world (Russia and the U.S. are now the main holdouts), abandon the rest of such foreign names and call our wines after the California valleys and New York State lakes from which they come, rather than after French villages (Chablis, Sauternes), German rivers and the like...
...notwithstanding, U.S. officials went on preparing new proposals for Germany that were based on proven and continuing firmness. Principal element: reunify Germany by free elections with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Possible tactic: offer the Russians a new European security treaty guaranteeing that no new German militarism could threaten them, even to the point of guaranteeing not to move NATO troops forward of their present positions in West Germany...
Brooding over this unsettling report, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Derick Heathcoat Amory two weeks ago took advantage of a routine Paris meeting of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation to discuss some highly private business with West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard and French Finance Minister Antoine Pinay. The fruits of that chat were harvested late last week, when the British treasury laconically announced that it had decided to make the pound sterling "externally convertible...
Intoxicated by God. His story is told in terms of a quest by the novelist for the heart of Manuel's mystery. Manuel's father worked on the coffee finca of Werner Poncet, a German planter of perverted tastes. After José had killed a man with a machete and in turn been murdered, Maria took flight from this Mexican Egypt to give birth to Manuel. From infancy he is one apart. He has a "disease" not quite epilepsy, but something that sometimes makes him unaware of things around him. At nine he whittles a wooden nail...
...elite, as he called them, Old Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...