Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government information office, where there is less danger from the Gestapo than from Allied bombs. Her final months of war are spent as a nurse in Austria. A year later, she marries an American Army officer in a traditional Russian Orthodox service, with a French count and a German prince holding the wedding crown...
...Levenson Award for outstanding teaching, was denied tenure at Harvard last fall although students regarded him as one of the University's better lecturers. Lee is currently working on a three-volume study of World War II and the Great Depression for which he has received a one-year German Marshall Fund grant...
There was no electrified fence. Not even a moat with huge walls. No Jack Nicholson in mirrored sunglasses standing arms akimbo with a german shepherd by his side waiting to shoot the first thing that moved across the line. Just 300 Mexicans--Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans, and Portugese too, but mostly Mexicans--wandering around one side of an invisible line waiting for night fall...
Willy Brandt, who served as West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, has always enjoyed a reputation as a moody, unpredictable politician. He lived up to that billing last week when he abruptly quit his post as chairman of the Social Democratic Party. A stone-faced Brandt informed his colleagues he was resigning his position because of the "internal criticisms" of his leadership...
...intense feuding between leftists and moderates that has virtually paralyzed the party. The crowning controversy was his effort to appoint a 30-year-old Greek emigre named Margarita Mathiopoulos as the party's chief spokeswoman. Not only did she not belong to the SPD, she was not even a German citizen. Brandt's successor will be Hans-Jochen Vogel, 61, the party's parliamentary leader...