Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
...Heinrich Hermann Suhr, 63, Socialist lord mayor of West Berlin, doughty foe of Communism, Social Democratic delegate to the Bonn parliament and President-elect of the Bundesrat, the Parliament's Upper House, sometime (before Hitler and since 1948) professor of political science, onetime (1922-33) secretary of the German Trade Union Association; of leukemia; in Berlin...
Last week Vintner Korn was in jail in Wiesbaden awaiting trial. If convicted of fraud, he faces up to ten years at hard labor. To German winegrowers, the law-if anything-is too lenient. At their annual convention at Wiirzburg, they denounced Korn's alchemy as "Schweinerei" (swinishness), demanded harsher penalties against "gottverdammte Weinpanscher und Weinfaelscher" (wine waterers and wine phoniers). They fret that if Korn's secret is revealed in detail at the trial, the publicity may encourage others to follow his example. Said a Bonn barkeep: "If it's that easy to make good Niersteiner...
...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell, as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...
...action started out as another ridge-and-river crossing by the victorious Fifth Army as it drove up the length of Italy. An optimistic intelligence summary said that German power was "ebbing." The attack was to be timed with the Anzio landing, 60 miles behind the German front at Cassino, trapping the Germans between two fires. Instead, it was the Allies who were trapped. This book ably retells the story of the trap and of what it took to pry it open again-in one of the great battles of World...