Word: junker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thadden vehemently denies that he or his party is neo-Nazi. His own background is impeccable. As far as is known, he was not a member of the Nazi Party, and his distinguished Prussian Junker family was active in the anti-Hitler resistance (a half-sister was executed by the Nazis in 1944). He is not a rabble-rouser by any means: he speaks forcefully but with little passion, devoting much of his speeches to denying charges of Nazism. When hecklers interrupt, he either rebuffs them with sarcasm or stands coolly by, purling on a cigarette, until the ruckus dies...
Before World War II, Bayerische Motoren Werke was famous as a maker of motorcycles and racing cars. During the war, the Munich plant produced airplane engines for the Junker bombers and for Hitler's jet fighter, the Messerschmitt ME 262. In 1947, after the U.S. Army stopped using BMW's shops to repair its tanks, the company started making motorcycles again, and began looking around for a car design as well. Misjudging the market, BMW decided on an eight-cylinder luxury job which cost so much to build that it lost money from the start. Simultaneously, the company...
...possibility that the chute might actually take off, taking the rider along with it, adds spice. That, in fact, is precisely what happened to Colorado State Junior John Junker three weeks ago. Gus helped too much, lofted Junker into a tree, fracturing an elbow...
Died. General Dietrich von Choltitz, 71, a stubby, impassive Junker who was known as the "smasher of cities" for leading blitzkriegs against Rotterdam and Sevastopol, became military chief of Paris in 1944, and was commanded by Hitler to repel the enemy or leave the city "a blackened field of ruins," but chose for the first time to disobey an order and secretly invited the Allies to enter Paris in order to save it, while Hitler angrily demanded, "Is Paris burn ing'?"-the words later made famous by the book and the movie, which will open in the U.S. this...
Died. Alexander Ernst von Falkenhausen, 88, German general, a Prussian Junker who was military overseer of Belgium and Northern France during World War II until his complicity in the 1944 plot to kill Hitler ended his career, then despite his claim to anti-Nazism, was convicted as a war criminal in Belgium but, granted an amnesty, left the country with this bitter entry in the customs book: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea";* of a heart attack; in Nassau, West Germany...