Word: gert
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Petra Kelly co-founded Germany's Green Party in 1979 as an organization for the rights of environmentalists, feminists, pacifists and socialists. She also participated actively in the anti-nuclear coalition, and in 1983 she and her companion, Gert Bastian, were elected to Parliament as representatives of the Green Party...
...Gert had been an officer in the German military until 1980, when he opposed the use of nuclear missiles in Europe and was forced to resign. Although very soon after its founding there was a a split in the Green Party, Petra and Gert never gave up their fight for ecology and world peace. They would travel around Europe giving talks and attending conferences. Petra worked so hard, and for so many causes, that she would only sleep four hours per night...
Some restaurants have undergone full-blown conversions. The 10-year-old Courtyard in Austin closed last year, and when chef-owner Gert Rauch reopened it as the Courtyard Grill, he had done away with grilled pheasant breast with shitake mushrooms in favor of more casual food, such as grilled marinated duck with warm cabbage salad. In Cambridge, Mass., Michela Larson added a glass- enclosed cafe atrium to her restaurant, Michela's, which serves a restrained version of her Northern Italian dishes. Cod, braised and served with a sauce of leeks, sherry and smoked bacon, replaced grilled swordfish. In the main...