Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western German elections in August found nearly all the candidates plugging away at "German National Rights" as their campaign issue. The election also featured groups of uniformed bully boys which the press euphemistically called "splinten parties"; the wrapping was different but the contents were the same. U.S. students in Europe this summer heard Germans parrot the same phrase again and again: "Hitler was all right; he did us a lot of good...
...over, there were language classes on some of the boats to brush up fading high school French and German; on the trip back, one boat's students were teaching English--to 200 DP's headed for Canada. Meetings and conferences sprang up in abundance. The moment one found a quiet corner, it would turn out that some sort of meeting was about to begin there, on anything from Scandinavian socialism to the German Baroque...
...memory of service men who were killed in battle. In 1946 one was named in memory of Jean Gaillard, a student of Ecole Contrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris, who served in the French Air Forces, was arrested by the Gestapo, and died in the German concentration camp of Ravensbruck...
Like most safety directors, Karsch owes his job to a "regrettable incident." On May 15, 1947, when White Sands was young, a German V-2 swooped down at 3,500 m.p.h. and landed three miles from Alamogordo (pop. 5,000). Alamogordans had been hardened by years of practice-bombing and an atom-bomb explosion. One woman called up the Army to "get that thing out of my backyard...
Last week critics were arguing bitterly about his lounging plaster female with a breast like a precariously balanced baseball. Some liked it almost as well as Englishman Henry Moore's pachydermic pinheads or German Joan Arp's egg-smooth abstractions. Others contended that it could not be compared with the high standards in postwar sculpture set in more conventional works by Milanese Artists Marino Marini (TIME, May 30) and Giacomo Manzu (TIME, July 18), who have been winning praise in both Britain and the U.S. but for lack of new work to exhibit were not represented...