Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single-minded ardor than the U.S. is West Germany, the economic miracle land of postwar Europe. In the past ten years West Germany's eager entrepreneurs have carried their country to the greatest prosperity in its history, partly by extending its economic influence into areas that generations of German military strategists coveted but could never manage to capture. For a battle report on one of West Germany's outstanding current trade offensives, see FOREIGN NEWS, West Germany Invades the Mideast...
...Refuse to accept "any substitution of East Germany for the Soviet Union in its responsibilities toward Berlin" if the Russians carry out their threat to turn over their occupation rights in Berlin to the East German puppet government on May 27. This allied stand does not rule out a possibility of dealing with East Germany as an "agent" of the Soviet Union if the Russians formally admit a continuing responsibility for assuring allied access to Berlin, as promised...
...week's end the State Department announced that the U.S., British, French and West German foreign ministers would meet in Paris in March "if developments warrant"-meaning if Moscow has replied by then to the allied notes...
...historic Berlin-to-Baghdad ambitions of the Germans got nowhere politically under the whip of Kaiser or Fuhrer, but before the peaceful push of West Germany's prosperous economy, they are succeeding surprisingly well. Armed now with sample case and blueprints instead of howitzer and battle plans, West Germany's businessmen are aggressively pushing ahead with a more realistic version of the old "Drive to the East." In Beirut last week the beaming manager of the local Volkswagen agency had only one complaint: he could not get cars shipped in from Germany fast enough to meet Lebanese demand...
Nevertheless, she became restless and bored. Though her formal education had stopped after a year of high school, Gertrude Stein decided she was going to Harvard. Latin was required for entry, and Gertrude knew only German and French. The stories of how this titanic young woman came to be admitted do not agree. In any case, Radcliffe accepted her and she went to live in a Cambridge boarding house, which she described as "interesting and knowing a lot who I had never seen before...