Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GERMAN UNIFICATION. Gronchi thinks the U.S. must produce some "new proposals" for German unification, or Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will progressively lose support, and West Germany will fall for some Soviet proposal...
...siege as of Feb. 15, ten days ahead of schedule. As a gesture to show that he expects no violence, Kubitschek plans to send back to other duties the plainclothes detail assigned to guard him. "I rely on this more than any bodyguard." he told a friend, patting a German-made .25-caliber automatic hidden beneath his well-tailored jacket...
...raised. A few weeks before, one of Furbush's colleagues had even suggested a song: Harvard's football classic, "The Gridiron King" ("Hit the line for Harvard ..."). This legislator hoped someone would write new words to "The Gridiron King," much as the State of Maryland had adapted the old German Christmas carol "O Tannenbaum" to its own purposes. This suggestion, however, evoked sharp editorial response from the ever-watchful Boston Herald: "Leave the songs to the birds and Tin-Pan Alley." The Herald's plan, however, does not appear to be the most practical solution. Massachusetts' Official State Bird...
...division of present-day Germany was described by Tillich as an "extremely dangerous situation." He said, "There is nothing but restlessness, cynicism and hopelessness in the German's concept of the future...
...There was more than one cause for the insane state of the German mind before World War II," Tillich said. He described the depression of 1929 as responsible for a "deadly resentment" developed in the minds of the German middle class. "The Nazis were skillful enough to turn this resentment against two factions, the lower classes and the Jewish intelligentsia," he explained...