Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public invitation to Russia (which the Russians accepted at week's end) to try once more for an Austrian peace treaty. Behind this was a faint implication that the Russians (whose Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky arrived this week in Manhattan) could have another go at a German treaty...
Franks a question from any of the area specialists under him: a new facet on the Palestine issue, more on German dismantling, something new on trade with Tito. By 11:30 starts the parade of "outside visitors," roughly from three categories: 1) visiting British dignitaries, 2) other ambassadors or ministers accredited in Washington, 3) newspapermen...
What nettled the doyen of British critics most was a performance of Rossini's Semiramide Overture by the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir John Barbirolli. "No really musical person," groused Newman, "would leave his comfortable home . . . specifically to hear this . . . But bring, at great expense, a German orchestra all the way from Berlin to play this negligible bit of Italian music in the capital of Scotland, and an English conductor all the way from Manchester to conduct it, and apparently it becomes, by some magical transformation . . . a 'festival' work and we trudge all the way to Edinburgh...
Built on the general plan of the German V2, the Viking has one great difference. The V-2 is steered by graphite vanes set in the rocket blast, but the Viking's preset gyro instruments steer it by moving the whole rocket motor, playing the gas blast from side to side like water from a hose. After the fuel is gone, and the rocket is moving in the last of the atmosphere, small jets of nitrogen shot out of a pressure sphere keep it flying true. The proving of this new system, potentially superior to that...
...century ago, the tiny vessel Brunswick sailed from the French port of Le Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above...