Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss of East German production would upset master plans, close factories and throw men out of work from Warsaw to Peking. Khrushchev obviously has no intention of bargaining away his hold: he wants to be confirmed...
Population Shifts. It is still provisional, but the Poles are laboring hard to make their possession permanent. Some 5,800,000 Germans were herded out after the war, leaving only 6,000 there today. About 7,500,000 Poles live there now, most of them postwar arrivals from other parts of Poland. Statues of German heroes have been carted away from village squares and replaced by Polish figures. Every German street sign is gone...
Chronic Fear. The Poles, without Marshall Plan aid,* had little investment capital to put into the new area; they also had to pay cruel sums to the Russians. But above all, they had a chronic fear that the territories might become German again in some cold war East-West settlement (West Germany has publicly renounced the use of force to recover the area, but has not officially abandoned its designs...
...writer on teenage manners and morals (Plain Talk for Men Under 21, Plain Talk for Women Under 21), fires out a "tossup" question. The team that answers first and correctly wins ten points, plus a shot at a bonus question worth 20 to 40 points. Samples: Who was the German philosopher whose name rhymed with a doughnut-shaped roll? (Answer: Hegel, rhymes with bagel.) If a hostess invited the named sons of Adam and Eve and the wives of Henry VIII to a party, how many guests would she have? (Answer: Nine-six wives and three sons: Cain, Abel, Seth...
...doctors and drugs to eradicate preventable disease. But man, he insists, must face hard facts with hardheaded realism. Disease does not surrender unconditionally. The very sanitary techniques that did so much to control infections in the 19th century set the stage for the ravages of polio in the 20th. German measles, once universal in childhood and then only a "trivial accident," now skips many sanitized youngsters; but if a woman gets it in the first three months of pregnancy, she may have a stillborn or malformed child...