Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Providence has a outstanding first line, led by wing Bob Reall, who in captain of the Friar sextet for the third straight year. Coach Dick Rondeau remarked recently that "unless the Reall-Ed Monahan-Red German combination is working well, we don't go anywhere." German scored three goals against the Crimson, including the tying and winning ones, in the 5-4 game...
Much of this story has been told by the U.S. Department of the Army and by Major General Charles Willoughby, Mac-Arthur's chief of intelligence. Author Meissner fills in some of the human reality from the point of view of a loyal German officer (he later commanded a tank against the Russians) who was completely hornswoggled by a master spy. In Tokyo in the late '303, Attache Meissner became friendly with "Correspondent" Sorge, who even was a guest at Meissner's wedding. Later, as a P.W. in an Allied camp, Meissner met others who had crossed...
...these items: a French diplomat claims to have seen him since; his execution, if it took place, occurred without a witness from the condemned man's own country, although such a witness is required by Japanese law; nor were his remains made available to friends or relatives. The German ambassador in Tokyo at war's end, Heinrich Stahmer, believed that Sorge survived to direct the Far Eastern Department of the Red army's Fourth Bureau (Intelligence...
Richard Sorge left private misery and public ruin in his spoor; history may remember him for a bitter, accidental play on words. His name in German spells "sorrow." As Sorge went about his dreadful career, Pope Pius XI was preparing his famous German-language encyclical against totalitarianism, whose opening words are: "Mit brennender Sorge [With burning sorrow...
Inevitably he nuzzles at puppy love. The girl Wanda has "elfin-upslanting eyes" and "wheaten lashes," and when Tone is near, she deep-breathes like "a deer chased by dogs." An older woman, a German, finally initiates Tone in the mysteries of sex ("Aber Gott . . . you are so young'1). Meanwhile Author Boles unravels a skein of subplots. Readers will find themselves aging rather more rapidly than Tone, who keeps himself in shape by doing knee-bends in moments of crisis and repeating that everything is "mighty very fine." The same cannot be said of Author Boles...