Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing interdependence and complexity of international relations render it incumbent on all civilized and orderly powers to insist on the proper policing of the world." T.R. began to keep the peace with a big stick. With a threat of intervention by the Fleet, he effectively warned rampaging German Kaiser Wilhelm II away from Venezuela. He landed U.S. forces in Santo Domingo to forestall European atempts to "collect debts," put U.S. agents backed up by marines to work at the customs houses, collected enough revenue to pay the debts, then withdrew. Roosevelt astonished the world by honoring...
...either. The plane obviously was expected, and after it landed at Sunan airport, 20 miles north of Pyongyang, North Korean officials made only token efforts to imply defection. With Hobbs were his copilot, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Howard McClellan (logging flying hours with Air Force permission), a West German businessman and his wife, and 30 Koreans, including the chief information officer of the Korean air force, an energetic, Communist-investigating member of the Korean National Assembly, and, police at Pusan theorized, some half-dozen North Korean agents...
...color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the Manhattan skyline (see color page). It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design: Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 71 (TIME, June...
Said The Cat later: "Of course I realised that it was out of the question 'or me to stay in a place like that. Why. the water-closet smelled quite abominably." Next morning she became a German agent; that very night she became Bleicher's mistress. "[He was a] most disgusting sentimental beast," she remarked .ater...
...with the help of a shrewd Allied agent, The Cat jumped again. Still Bleicher's mistress by night, she became a British agent by day. She managed to get to London, taking with her "a complete German radio code," and the British set to work sending false information back to Bleicher. But she hated London. "I don't feel that I am really liked or trusted," she complained. She was dead right. When her usefulness was ended, the British clapped her into jail, and at war's end handed her back to the French police in return...