Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor -- just like your Robin Hat." The grim side of the job includes treachery and murder. To escape death at the hands of a Nazi strangler, Aline must shoot to kill. There are two happy endings to her story. She reduces the list of possible Himmler agents to a German countess, and lengthens her name by marrying a Spanish nobleman, Luis Figuera y Perez de Guzman el Bueno...
Rock fans are complaining because a Beatles "classic" will be used to advertise Nike sneakers. But nobody complained when Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite was used in a commercial for cat food or the Brandenburg Concertos advertised German cars and French mustard. My heart bleeds for the Beatles fans who take the commercialization of their heroes' songs so seriously...
...tighter coordination of economic policies (see box). The agreement was easy to reach, but the goal proved difficult to accomplish: despite a spate of follow-up meetings among economic leaders, market forces sent the dollar on a roller-coaster plunge in relation to the Japanese yen and the West German mark...
...deserted field eight miles from the West German frontier, Vladimir donned flying goggles and wobbled aloft, rising no higher than 90 ft. to avoid being spotted by radar. Minutes later, two Czechoslovak air force Albatros jets closed in but turned away as he entered West German airspace. Vladimir kept flying until his fuel was gone, finally sputtering to earth in a potato field 19 miles from the border. "I've seen a lot of escapees," said a regional police official, "but this fellow had a real pioneer spirit...
...Austrian observing the political scene in my country from abroad, I would like to thank the U.S. Department of Justice for taking steps against President Waldheim. He has lied about his involvement in the German army during World War II and has been evasive in answering his accusers. Waldheim does not deserve to be President...