Word: gottes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Correspondents all over the country sent in copy, at space rates. A moonlighting Washington newsman supplied a Capital column, whimsically bylined G. Schenk Gott ("God's gift" in idiomatic German). The Daily Press sent a man to follow Republican Presidential Candidate Goldwater about the country, another staffer to cover the Ecumenical Conference in the Vatican. When the Warren Commission report became available. Dworkin flew a reporter to Washington for a copy, published 13,000 words of summary text...
...mein Gott," said Erhard in mock terror. "I hope with me you will work faster. What will you paint...
...linden and oak symbolized Old Germany, the emblem today is the Gummibaum (rubber plant), whose leaves luxuriate in the central heating of millions of spanking-new apartments. The nation has no motto; Gott mit Uns went the way of the spiked helmet, and the closest thing to a watchword in a devoutly neat country is "Vorsicht! Frisch Gebohnert" (Careful! Freshly Waxed). Well-to-do Germans are drinking more heavily, apparently to fight the frustrations of wealth; sociologists speak of Wohlstandsalkoholismus-prosperity alcoholism...
Gilbert and Gott find Britain's political advances to Hitler much more annoying than her economic connections. At the time, however, these approaches seemed somewhat understandable. Chamberlain had been a careful student of pre-World War I diplomacy, and he hoped to avoid the basic mistake made by both the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente--both systems were so inflexible that war could not be avoided once the first shot had been fired. Chamberlain wanted to preserve to the last minute the flexibility that Loyd George had lacked. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister went too far, as the authors...
...about The Appeasers is that it fails to discuss the most important issue of England's appeasement. If Great Britain had restricted Hitler at any point along his path of conquest, would he have stopped? Taylor insists that he would have, but Alan Bullock is not sure. Gilbert and Gott don't venture an opinion...