Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orphan, Frances was adopted at 14 months and reared in Larchmont, N.Y. When she was eleven, her father committed suicide after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that...
...German Gonzalez relieved Viola, but didn't last long. Gonzalez was greeted by a single by Nick Esasky, the first batter he faced, to make...
...nasty falling-out between normally amicable allies was the result of renewed German demands that the U.S. open talks with the Soviet Union on reducing Europe's short-range nuclear weapons, nearly all of which are deployed on West German soil. At one point, Genscher complained that his country would bear the brunt of a Soviet attack. An exasperated Cheney interrupted Genscher: "Look, if the flag goes up, we're all going to be obliterated, so we don't need to hear any of that...
Nonetheless, Chancellor Helmut Kohl did not back down, and last week formally proposed negotiations with Moscow. In the U.S. view, the German demands threaten the entire NATO strategy of nuclear deterrence. For 40 years NATO has relied on nuclear weapons to offset the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming superiority in conventional arms. The backbone of its land-based tactical nuclear force consists of 88 U.S.-made Lance launchers...
...apple, being just about the only person in the house who still thinks the market's heading up. People regard him with a fascination and solicitude otherwise reserved for a condemned man on the gallows. "It will happen, it will happen, it will happen," a short man with a German accent warns him, "but this time it won't be the Fed, it will be the Japanese stock market. I'm talking about panic." Frank concedes mildly that this is possible, but says it is unlikely...