Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tossed myself over the barrier and started across the field when I saw that there was someone at work over to my left. A group of people picking, a smaller group of people watching, a truck, baskets of strawberries, German shepards--big ol' dogs. Inching closer, the pickers were darker than those watching...
...does not simply refer to the process of "thinking logically") and that empiricism refers to the belief that all ideas are derived from sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular grand jury and a grand jury? And how many of us know enough about German literature to use sturm und drang correctly? Or about the Peloponnesian War which inspired some historian to coin Pyrrhic victory, to make a golden apple of this idiom, rather than dilute its meaning every time...
West European leaders acknowledge that the terrorist threat to their countries cannot be solved without a concerted effort. The day after Besse's murder, French Interior Minister Pasqua and his West German counterpart, Friedrich Zimmermann, agreed in a two-hour meeting to begin exchanging members of their antiterrorist liaison teams in an attempt to develop a regular flow of information between the two countries...
Meanwhile West German attention focused on the Hasi-Salameh case. The pretrial confessions read to the court pointed to Syrian involvement. Both defendants admitted that a suitcase bomb used in the Friendship Society attack last March had been obtained from the Syrian embassy in East Berlin. Hasi said a man he knew as Abu Ahmed gave him the bomb in the embassy kitchen. After the device twice failed to explode, a Syrian explosives expert was summoned from the embassy. A few days later the bomb went...
...whether Syrian authorities were involved in the bombing. At week's end Bonn had not decided what action it would take in the event of proof of Syrian complicity, though a source close to the government said a complete severing of ties with Syria would be unlikely. West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Cabinet is divided over the question of what it might do, and Kohl is still considering his position...