Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history began on June 25, 1954 in Room 1803 of the T-3 Building in Washington's Office of Naval Research. Among the service and civilian scientists present to discuss the possibility of firing a satellite into outer space was Dr. Wernher von Braun, father of the German V-2 turned U.S. Army missile expert. Von Braun assured the group that the Redstone missile, already developed at the Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. and successfully fired at Cape Canaveral in 1953, could be souped up to put a 5-lb. satellite into outer-space orbit...
...never have attempted. Turkey's peasants, for the first time in history, are something more than beasts of burden, have a stake in their country's future. Turkish industrial and agricultural production are far above 1950 levels, and still inching up. Says the representative of one West German company that has been shipping goods to Turkey without payment: "The Americans will never let the Turks down. One day we will get our money, because one day Menderes will have made Turkey into a very healthy and powerful country indeed...
...visit to Bonn, West Germany's brilliant Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard cautiously suggested that it might be wiser for Turkey to build only two new cement factories instead of the twelve that Menderes planned. Smiling courteously, Turkey's Premier-who speaks English, French and Greek but no German-replied: "C'est line affaire de notre cuisine inteérieure." Explained an Erhard aide: "In good German, this means, 'That's none of your goddam business...
INGE BORKH, 36, a big-voiced, big-framed German soprano, sings brilliantly in such muscular roles as Elektra and Salome, overacts with boisterous Germanic abandon. Last week, in her Met debut, she acted a coarse-grained Salome. She danced enthusiastically, handled her voice intelligently and, in the final long soliloquy, sang with exquisite beauty...
American Methods. The Paulists' first century began with little more than Isaac Thomas Hecker's burning conviction that he, the son of German immigrants and a convert from Protestantism, was called to make new converts among the new people of a new country. He and his four companions-all converts and one (Father George Deshon) a West Point graduate-set about the task by making his society as American as they could...