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Word: gleich (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...developed many ideas so that they become concrete and so another party can pick them up--the Parliament won't accept the initiatives from our mouths. We're not working for the waste-paper basket. This is very important, at least to us, psychologically," said Amim von Gleich, a member of the Greens executive board, in Cambridge...

Author: By Gregor F.L. Gruber, | Title: Moving on Thin Ice | 2/16/1984 | See Source »

...theory was that politicking should not be a profession. We didn't want to estrange our delegates from their regular lives," said vonGleich. But recently even this policy has become a source of contention. "In practice, however, we're finding the mood is increasingly one of competition," von Gleich added...

Author: By Gregor F.L. Gruber, | Title: Moving on Thin Ice | 2/16/1984 | See Source »

...translated: "Come Alive out of the Grave with Pepsi." Elsewhere it was translated with more precision: "Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back from the Grave." In 1965, prior to a reception for Queen Elizabeth II outside Bonn, Germany's President Heinrich Ltibke, attempting an English translation of "Gleich geht es los" (It will soon begin), told the Queen: "Equal goes it loose." The Queen took the news well, but no better than the President of India, who was greeted at an airport in 1962 by Lübke, who, intending to ask, "How are you?" instead said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Oops! How's That Again? | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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