Word: hamburged
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...Ease. West Germans from Chancellor Adenauer on down have been listening attentively if warily to Grafin Donhoff for 17 years. They know by now that as foreign editor of Die Zeit, a small, opinionated weekly published in Hamburg, she will seldom say any thing to give them ease. After the war ended, for example, most Germans felt that the less said about their Nazi past the better. But Die Zeit and die Grafin boldly demanded that all German war criminals be punished for their crimes. After the Chancellor appointed one Theodor Oberlander to his Cabinet, Die Zeit raised the issue...
...protect us from Eastern infiltration," read a recent editorial, "but cuts the Eastern countries off from the infiltration of freedom." The Grafin has visited East Germany twice; once, when a group of East German writers were refused permission by West German police to pay a return visit to Hamburg, Die Zeit stubbornly brought the delegation over anyway...
...World War II engulfed the family castle, Friedrichstein, in East Prussia, its chatelaine joined the German underground, made regular weekly clandestine trips to Berlin, and played a role in many an assassination plot against Hitler. At war's end, after the partition of Germany, the Grafin traveled to Hamburg on horseback, a 500-mile journey that took her two months...
Apparently a well-coordinated ring of German, Austrian, and possibly Swiss and American grain dealers arranged to have the shipments moved from such ports as Hamburg and Bremen directly into West German and other European markets, where grain brings premium prices. It was months later that a U.S. embassy official in Vienna compared shipping records and realized that while 40 million bushels of feed had left U.S. ports, only 16 million had ever reached Austria. Six Austrian grain importers were arrested and released on bail ranging up to $200,000, one of the highest figures in the country...
...side by side on the screen the anatomical, clinical and professional details of their lives. Women's charms include: a Japanese operation in which breasts are pumped up with liquid paraffin; a trip through a Los Angeles falsie factory; a window-shopping tour of Hamburg's bawdy-house district, where the fat hussies are on display like so many sausages; a pause for worship in Stockholm with a lady priest; a visit to a Tokyo operating room where almond eyes are reshaped into English walnuts; a look at a European beauty clinic where faces are skinned...