Word: germanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was last at home on Long Island, blond, blue-eyed Dan McCarthy couldn't forget the wonderful time he had as a G.I. in Germany. He liked to sit up late with his memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here...
...daughter to a poet by taking him on a trip to the moon. It sounded like fun, but the first problem was to find the score. Il Mondo had been resurrected in Germany in 1932, but had never been produced in the U.S. Leavitt finally found the German version through a Manhattan publisher, changed the name to The Man in the Moon, and set about squeezing it down for Lemonade Opera...
...German government is in the making. With this the hour has come to speak where I had to keep silent before...
...German churchman jangled the Nazis' nerves more successfully than bald, goateed little Dr. Friedrich Otto Dibelius, a Lutheran. Since the war, as Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg, Dr. Dibelius' alert, twinkling-eyed integrity has proved almost equally galling to the Russian occupation authorities, in whose zone his church is located. To register their tacit support of his undercover battle, the Evangelical Church in Germany in its first official meeting this year elected him chairman (TIME...
...four years that have just passed, the church leaders have withheld criticism . . . From now on, the responsibility for what happens in Germany will fall more & more on German shoulders...