Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he was 27, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), Hamburg-born Reinhold Wilhelm Johannes Pabel was a tough little article. He had served two tours with Hitler's armies on the Russian front, had been wounded, and rushed back into combat as a sergeant of Rommel's famed Afrika Korps. He had survived the German retreat from Sicily by swimming a mile to shore after his boat was sunk in the Strait of Messina, and had been badly wounded again and finally captured by U.S. forces near the Volturno River in Italy...
...month Germans had been fretting over what they called exaggerated U.S. and British reports of resurgent Naziism in West Germany. Last week their own government dispatched police into Hamburg and Bremen to round up key men in a blatantly Nazi movement called the German Free Corps...
...knew the trouble: his performers were not necessarily Communists-they were simply taking out Rückversicherung, which literally means "back insurance." This is the German word for forehanded protection against occupation by the Russians, if it should come. There are many varieties of Rückversicherung: wealthy Hamburg businessmen who keep yachts fueled and supplied for quick getaways; non-Communist Germans who carry Communist Party cards just in case; Ruhr industrialists who protect their eastern plants by buying expensive advertising in Communist newspapers...
When Herr Bueren announced his startling theory, most scientists shrugged it off. But the German Astronomical Society accepted the challenge. Said Hamburg Observatory Director Otto Heckmann: the society would like to keep such "silly ideas" from attracting too much attention. Besides, the society needed the money...
Onassis is still expanding fast, has 23 more tankers on order (for $130 million) all over the world, including a 45,000-tonner at Hamburg. By next year, he will control 1,250,000 tons...