Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserves shrank by $150 million in the last two months of 1957, construction was off by 4%, coal production had declined in 1957 for the first time since World War II, and unemployment had reached its highest level (1,200,000) since 1954. Privately, Erhard told friends that the German economy has paused for "a breathing spell." Confronted with the added threat of strikes by transport, coal and bank workers demanding shorter hours and more pay, the engineer of the German miracle had a typically German solution. Citizens, said Erhard, should "ponder whether the German people ought...
Local Equivalent. With Rooney directing the attack, the Kutis Undertakers have held their own against such jonker-teering German clubs as Augsburg and Nürnberg. "We've been told that we're the equivalent of a first-division professional team in Europe," Kutis reports...
There was a Chekhovian irony in seeing jaunty, paunchy Dictator Franco review Moorish. Spanish, German and Italian troops on victorious parade in 1939 and, an instant later hearing Narrator Walter Cronkite remind viewers that U.S. Sherman tanks roll down these same avenues today. As Scriptwriter Hughes explained: "Victory is a fragile thing, and history does not linger long in the 20th century...
...just after World War II began, three cruisers of the Royal Navy (Ajax, Achilles, Exeter) sighted a dangerous German raider, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, off the coast of Uruguay, and attacked. They had their nerve. The German was one of the most formidable ships afloat-a fact soon demonstrated. In little more than an hour the Exeter was wallowing out of action. But the other two cruisers, harrying the enemy like sharks at a whale, managed to hit where it hurt. The German commander (Peter Finch) withdrew into the River Plate, and docked at Montevideo. Prodded...
...Durer, however, the issues become clear without confusing the matter with a French school--German school alternative. Nothing cou'd be more Germanic than these fifteenth century prints. Even if Durer and his contemporaries hadn't the horrors of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Third Reich to motivate them, they found substance for equally dramatic expression in the Apocalypse, the Christ passion, or even in a coat of arms of death...