Word: ist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German recovery caused Saarlanders to look wistfully across the Rhine. West Germans revived the old slogan, Deutsch ist die Saar (The Saar is German), and began talking of another Anschluss. Paris was horrified; the French government vowed that it would never ratify EDC and German rearmament until Bonn promised never to take back the Saar into a German Reich. France's main reason: with the Saar, which now produces 28% of France's coal and 25% of its steel, French heavy industry can compete with West Germany's Ruhr; without it, French production would be hopelessly outmatched...
...believed it for nearly two weeks after the invasion of Sicily began, actually sent Marshal Rommel to Greece, where he expected the real attack to come. From Sicily to Greece had gone so many torpedo boato that the German patrols were ineffective. All the way across Europe went the ist Panzer Division to meet the expected invasion of Greece. In Sicily itself, Axis forces were shifted from the south, where the attack came, to the north...
...West Berlin last week were signs: "Die BZ ist wieder da [BZ is back again]." BZ is the House of Ullstein's tabloid Berliner Zeitung, once one of the biggest papers in Berlin with a circulation of 510,000, specializing in sports, features, entertainments and easy-to-read news. In pre-Hitler Germany, when the House of Ullstein was the largest publisher on the continent, BZ was confiscated by Hitler, along with the Ullsteins' four other dailies, five weeklies and six magazines. Last year they got some of their property back (TIME, Feb. 4, 1952), and under Karl...
Just Like Adam Smith. Not long after ist Lieut. White came home from the war in 1919, he packed up and went to New York to become director of a settlement house. Once there, he decided to get a college education. He enrolled at Columbia University in February 1922, moved across the country to Leland Stanford as a junior three semesters later. The mature and married White was a different kind of student. He graduated (A.B.) from Stanford in 1924, "with great distinction" and also with a Phi Beta Kappa key. A year later, also at Stanford...
Died. Major General Innis Palmer ("Bull") Swift, 71, oldtime Army cavalryman who during World War II trained and led the crack ist Cavalry Division in the Southwest Pacific (New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands), later commanded the Sixth Army's I Corps in the liberation of the Philippines; of a heart ailment; in San Antonio...