Word: lebensraum
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...time patrolling the fence between the two pens, endeavoring to break into the Intensive Pen, where he could see other males and females. These males and females, for their part, tried to scratch their way into the Extensive Pen. The lone male sought company, but the overcrowded company sought lebensraum." When a young doe was placed in the Extensive Pen, the lone male ignored her. But when a strong adult buck was introduced, he attacked with verve and compelled the newcomer to retreat. Then the lone male returned to his patrol of the dividing fence...
...hear them talk, the four nations gathered at Vaduz last week had the sort of grievances that often lead to war. One of them, with a swollen population of 25,000 to the half square mile, desperately needs Lebensraum. Another has the largest number of Communists per capita in Western Europe, and civil strife is frequent. A third has constant border troubles with its neighbors, who seek to change the nation's traditional way of life...
...University is intent upon its search for lebensraum it might devote the warm summer evenings to pondering the possibility of building parking lots. Such a solution to the parking problem might well be expensive, but it would at least reduce the issue to its financial form...
...stands at 1,800,000. Said Defense Ministry Director Shimon Peres last week: "Israel's security will not be assured until we have a population of 5,000,000." To which Israel's worried Arab neighbors ask: How long will it be before Israel is demanding Lebensraum...
...insurance of period design, it may be like a horse-hair sofa today, an object of horror thirty years hence. And it may have the acoustical virtues of a giant tuning fork like that Great Mistake, Harkness Commons. But for all that, we're glad its on the way. Lebensraum...